The Imposter
Directed by Bart Layton
Released in 2012
Genre of Documentary, biography.
Themes of family, mystery, murder, crime, deception.
This documentary was a drama-doc through and through. Pretty much all of it had to be recreated due to none of it originally being on film. Of course it wasn't, that would have hindered and probably prevented the entire thing from happening in the first place. The only footage I can imagine that was completely unplanned was the rare instances of family home videos showing Nicholas before his disappearance. Regardless, it was an amazing story and the details didn't seem to be over dramatised. Anybody who's curious can simply look up the news stories from when the story was occurring. The sound effects of when the impostor of Nicholas was pretending to be someone else over the phone were very nice, and I enjoyed the transition from interviews to flashbacks. It's certainly not a traditional narrative, as the timeline is very butchered. Constantly fusing and cutting between modern day and the past. It didn't seem like there were many actor's either, with most of the cast being credited as themselves. I haven't seen many documentaries so I don't have much to compare it to but if we observe it in conjunction with Undefeated, we can see that Undefeated is compiled of mostly real life footage from the real team, whereas this is all in hindsight, looking back on the events.
Released in 2012
Genre of Documentary, biography.
Themes of family, mystery, murder, crime, deception.
This documentary was a drama-doc through and through. Pretty much all of it had to be recreated due to none of it originally being on film. Of course it wasn't, that would have hindered and probably prevented the entire thing from happening in the first place. The only footage I can imagine that was completely unplanned was the rare instances of family home videos showing Nicholas before his disappearance. Regardless, it was an amazing story and the details didn't seem to be over dramatised. Anybody who's curious can simply look up the news stories from when the story was occurring. The sound effects of when the impostor of Nicholas was pretending to be someone else over the phone were very nice, and I enjoyed the transition from interviews to flashbacks. It's certainly not a traditional narrative, as the timeline is very butchered. Constantly fusing and cutting between modern day and the past. It didn't seem like there were many actor's either, with most of the cast being credited as themselves. I haven't seen many documentaries so I don't have much to compare it to but if we observe it in conjunction with Undefeated, we can see that Undefeated is compiled of mostly real life footage from the real team, whereas this is all in hindsight, looking back on the events.
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