Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.0/10 | |
Released: | January 30, 2015 | |
Runtime: | 110 min | |
Genres: | Documentary Crime | |
Countries: | United Kingdom United States | |
Companies: | South Central Films HBO Documentary Films | |
Cast: | Nick Broomfield Donna Lonnie David Franklin Jr. | |
Crew: | Nick Broomfield Barney Broomfield Marc Hoeferlin | |
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“In physics, the observer effect is the theory that the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably changes that phenomenon.” As a documentarian, Nick Broomfield has highlighted this concept in a couple of important ways.
Broomfield is often criticized in the documentary field for “inserting himself” too closely with his subject matter. But I think that the wrong thing to do would be to presume that anyone could go this in depth with a living subject and NOT effect it. People know they’re being filmed, know they’re being interviewed, know that someone is finally listening, and it shows. To pretend it doesn’t would be irresponsible and arrogant.
The Grim Sleeper was called such because of the “hiatus” he supposedly took in his murders. Operating from 1985 to 2007, the Los Angeles police tied no killings to Lonnie Franklin Jr between 1988 and 2002. But he never stopped. He just spent 14 years working in sanitation services. ….Don’t think about that too much.
The only reason these killings were allowed (yes, allowed) to continue as long as they did was because of the victim pool, namely black women, many of whom were sex workers and/or addicts. Police refer to these victims as the “less dead” because they don’t matter to them the way an affluent, white victim would. And it shows. Here the observer effect would tell us that more observation of these crimes may very well have brought about a more timely investigation and prosecution, and dozens of women would still be alive.