I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v Michelle Carter - Season 1
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Teen Michelle Carter's actions shocked a nation - but what really happened behind closed doors? This HBO special showcases the prosecution's point of view and alternately the defense's. Which side do you fall on?
The documentary is split into two parts, the first looks at the case from the angle of the prosecution, the second from the angle of the defense. It's a striking lesson in how perceptions can change.
Even if you know how it ends, you can't help but be riveted (and heartbroken) by what happened and why - and what it could mean for the consequences of what we say to one another online.
The documentary's second half, in particular, does a marvelous job in painting the picture of the whole relationship. That picture is believable, tragic, terrifying, and blurs the concepts of the victim and the victimizer as we understand them.
As in her past documentaries, [Erin Lee] Carr excels in extending a touch of humanity to characters whose stories otherwise would be defined by what can be splashed on the cover of a tabloid.
Carr, in what feels like a revelatory move for a documentarian investigating a true-crime case, never comes down on one side or offers up a finite conclusion.
