After lunch with Liz at LEAF I soloed to Violet Crown for THE IMPOSTER, a well made documentary about a serial imposter. A clever young man desperate for attention maximizes people's gullibility by pretending to be a youth from San Antonio who has been missing for four years. From the moment we see him we see he is clearly a grown man. There are so many authority figures he interfaces with in Europe and then the U.S. who don't question his obvious hoax. When he is interviewed by the agent from The Missing and Exploited Children's agency one can only pull out their hair by the hoax she bought as truth: a boy reports to be kidnapped by the military to be brought to undisclosed destinations with other boys where they are tortured, raped, and repeatedly victimized. He reports broken bones, cigarette burns, and repeated violation with no physical evidence. It is only when Charlie Parker, a private investigator matches his ears to a photo of the actual missing boy's ears do we have an AHA moment (are you laughing yet?) This movie is painful in that a beautiful boy already experiencing difficulty in a dysfunctional family has gone missing and no one knows what happened. Sad.
On a much brighter note tonight I traveled up to Scottish Rite theater to see films shot for the 48 Hour Film Project. What fun! Some of these Austin filmmakers are just brilliant, clever, creative and willing to take such risks with their subject matter. Nice seeing so many familiar faces as well.
No comments:
Post a Comment