I have to admit I really don't like documentaries in which the documentary maker features heavily. This is one of those documentaries. From the very beginning there is lots of narration by the documentary maker, rather than putting the story together using other sources.
When the documentary fails to do the expected - uncover more serious crimes committed by the subject - it switches to an attempt to examine the subject's extremely odd and unpleasant personality.
The subject of the documentary is a difficult person. A very difficult person who has burnt a hell of a lot of bridges and leaves destruction in his wake. A person who has problems telling the truth and likes to manipulate people.
I have had dealings with a person like this in my life. He had a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder, and the mister organ in this film is likely one of these types. A compulsive liar who can never ever admit to being in the wrong, a serial litigant who represents them self in court, and generally a pest to those he comes across. More than a pest, a menace, a palpable, malignant presence.
I had a visceral reaction to this film, it brought back the bad experience I had with the same type of person in my life. Another reviewer points out that unless you have experienced a person like Mr organ, you can't know what it feels like. This part of the documentary I understood. How much the documentary maker is creeped out by his subject.
But the documentary maker make some questionable decisions himself. He decides to harass the family of his subject even though it is abundantly clear they have no intention of talking to him. Yet the documentary maker takes his equipment and turns up at their door expecting them to talk to him?
No of course he doesn't expect them to talk to him, he just wants a little bit of footage of them refusing to talk to him. It's the kind of journalism you see on crappy current affair shows. From the very start, he has his camera on as he approaches his subjects, before asking permission to film. There's a disingenuousness to this sort of behaviour. It reminded me of a Martin Bashir style documentary.
A mistake the documentary maker made was not abandoning the project halfway through, throwing all the footage in the bin and setting fire to it. That's the only way to defeat the malignant narcissist, deny them any kind of attention whatsoever.
Unfortunately people like mister organ thrive off attention, and this film will probably give him some sort of thrill. He will probably try to sue the documentary maker for defamation.
When the documentary fails to do the expected - uncover more serious crimes committed by the subject - it switches to an attempt to examine the subject's extremely odd and unpleasant personality.
The subject of the documentary is a difficult person. A very difficult person who has burnt a hell of a lot of bridges and leaves destruction in his wake. A person who has problems telling the truth and likes to manipulate people.
I have had dealings with a person like this in my life. He had a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder, and the mister organ in this film is likely one of these types. A compulsive liar who can never ever admit to being in the wrong, a serial litigant who represents them self in court, and generally a pest to those he comes across. More than a pest, a menace, a palpable, malignant presence.
I had a visceral reaction to this film, it brought back the bad experience I had with the same type of person in my life. Another reviewer points out that unless you have experienced a person like Mr organ, you can't know what it feels like. This part of the documentary I understood. How much the documentary maker is creeped out by his subject.
But the documentary maker make some questionable decisions himself. He decides to harass the family of his subject even though it is abundantly clear they have no intention of talking to him. Yet the documentary maker takes his equipment and turns up at their door expecting them to talk to him?
No of course he doesn't expect them to talk to him, he just wants a little bit of footage of them refusing to talk to him. It's the kind of journalism you see on crappy current affair shows. From the very start, he has his camera on as he approaches his subjects, before asking permission to film. There's a disingenuousness to this sort of behaviour. It reminded me of a Martin Bashir style documentary.
A mistake the documentary maker made was not abandoning the project halfway through, throwing all the footage in the bin and setting fire to it. That's the only way to defeat the malignant narcissist, deny them any kind of attention whatsoever.
Unfortunately people like mister organ thrive off attention, and this film will probably give him some sort of thrill. He will probably try to sue the documentary maker for defamation.