Anyone else annoyed with his facial expressions? Something about his smugness just made me want to punch him throughout the movie with the weird gap toothed smiles and the odd staring into the camera at weird moments. the guy should be locked up in a mental asylum cause he isn't sane. also he is very weird looking.
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No, he didn't irritate me in that way. I came out of the cinema thinking that at least Bourdin was honest about his dishonesty, but was he manipulating me (and the audience) into believing that? That was his skill, I think. Did he plant the idea in the private investigator's mind that the family might have killed Nicholas or did the PI come up with that idea and Bourdin just ran with it? He seemed to me quite a complex man. His childhood sounded horrendous, but was anything he said true? It did strike me that it would taken a certain kind of upbringing to turn him into the person he seemed to be. I don't understand why the prison allowed a telephone in his cell and let him continue harassing families who'd lost a child. There seemed something compulsive and rather mad about him doing that. I mean, what good would it do him?
I came out of the cinema not really knowing what to think. There seemed to be something wilfully stupid about the family and I did wonder if Nicholas's older brother had killed him and the family knew. Why did the sister more or less coach Bourdin with the family photos? He said he wouldn't have passed the State Department's test if she hadn't told him who everyone was in advance. Curiouser and curiouser.
Yea I dont get the sister showing him all the photos.If you travel to another continent to see your supposed missing brother wouldnt you want to make sure beyond doubt? I mean he didnt look a bit like the brother apart a gap in his teeth,foreign accent and no memories.
Just seems strange how she had no suspicions at all
Why don't you get it? Is it because the "documentary" never bothered to explain?
Tell me, when someone in your family goes missing and forgets everything, what do you do? You try to jog their memory and explain to them their past and show them pictures, no? OR wait do you have a better explanation of what you would do?
Alright, so you think you found your family member, with no memory and you've not seen them in years and the only way they can get back home is to prove to people they know their own family.. Such a thing means they would be stuck unable to return... You wouldn't help them?
This "documentary" doesn't bother to allow the sister to fully explain. Because if it did, there would be no questions left and it wouldn't seem as interesting to you. It's human nature to do what the sister did and it's also human nature to easily believe, like you are now, whether the family or the "imposter" is the liar.
If my brother went missing, and somebody claimed to be him two or three years later, and his eyes had literally changed to a completely different color, and if he had gone from being a light skinned American to an olive skinned Frenchman, I would know it wasn't my brother. Those things aren't like losing or gaining weight, or growing a beard.
No matter how much time has passed, you don't just suddenly become French. The sister could not explain it, if she could give a credible explanation, I'm sure they would have shown it, but there isn't one. I'm guessing you're playing devil's advocate, and took your best shot at it, but it just goes to prove that there isn't a good explanation.
YES--something about him with regard to him appearance and attitude bugged me, much like looking at the mugshot of Jared Lee Loughner, the man who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords last year.
sharethe "odd staring into the camera at weird moments" were the filmmakers decision made in the editing process. its a cinematic tool. he didnt just make weird faces at them during the interview.
i thought he came off as totally sane- just a lost young man capable of cruelty.
the idiocy of the family was much more alarming to me.
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He's now married and has children. I was astonished someone would want to marry or be with this person. People are honestly clueless. Also it would be ironic if someone kidnapped his kid and I would be the first to call him and claim to be his kid. :)
Karma should exist for these kind of things.
You hope an innocent child gets kidnapped (and possibly raped and/or murdered) because of what his father did over a decade ago?
share6 years in a US prison not punishment enough then? His karma is sorted and is now living a happy domestic life. Good for him.
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Oh, and I'm sure you're a beautiful example of the human form. Give me two minutes, a pair of pliers and I'll give you your own gap-toothed grin.
Moron.
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shareI watched the special features docu and the editor explains that the camera was shooting Bourdin the whole time he was interviewed, and the editor used the shots where he is not speaking and just fidgeting about, smiling etc. as he found them interesting. Otherwise it would have just been Bourdin speaking into camera the whole time.
shareHe exhibited quite a few psychopathic traits. Manipulative, superficial charm, lack of empathy. I also think he must have suffered some sort of abuse as a child which had a profound effect on his psyche. That would go some way to explaining his graphic depictions of child abuse and his constant repeat offending, pretending to be other missing children.
shareQuite the opposite - I found him incredibly charming and intriguing.
He spoke intelligently, and gave off a sense of confidence that didn't seem smug or pretentious.
Plus, his shirt was RAD!
It's funny when editors choose to cut in awkward, creepy, or funny faces/emotions from interviews into the final product.
This is always done with certain intentions; whether to make the person look quirky, stupid, gross, or crazy. Like someone picking their nose after sitting idle in an interview chair for a few minutes, not actually being asked questions, would almost certainly be included in a nasty show like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to give the audience more of a perception on how gross someone is. I personally think it's a tacky thing to do, because some people watching it may not understand what it's like to be interviewed in a boring room for hours on end.
So whatever his "odd staring" made you feel was certainly intentional, although It didn't steer me in any direction at all, or make me think any less of him for not *looking* sane.