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Sometimes good people get involved with bad people and pay the consequences for their niceness.

A documentary today about a guy who gets killed by his lover and mother of his child. She also kills the kid before they can get to her.

It is pretty tough going as, from all accounts, the dead guy was pretty nice.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

But I stayed with it. The story is tragic and sad and full of injustice. Not a pleasant experience.

But as a documentary of how bad things happen to good people, it is a work of high art. Despite its sadness, it invites us to enter the situation further and we follow, trusting that we will be treated well. Somehow this works in a good way. It is hard not to be outraged at some of it but that is the point I think.

This documentary is not for everyone. We understand that there were outcomes in the laws which somehow allow a dedicated criminal to strike again.

Facts of life in these days of justice for all. Innocence before proof of guilt. Sometimes the proof comes to late and in a form that reveals the imperfections of the system.

Labels: films