Netflix is showing the trailer whether you want to see it or not on the PS4 platform. Thanks for that Netflix. SMH
He’s a murderer, who killed and dismembered a man on camera, then posted the video to the internet.
I had forgotten he’d started with animal cruelty, so it never occurred to me from the description that it would be about him until he was mentioned.
My wife just watched it today, so she was relating facts from the Magnotta case. Most of it I heard about at the time (it was fairly big news in Canada), but I didn’t realise there was an “internet vigilante” angle to it.
Before they identified Luka Magnotta, the internet vigilantes misidentified some guy in South Africa as the killer, because he looked similar and had shared one of the videos. There was a harassment campaign, and the guy ended up committing suicide.
So internet vigilantism doesn’t always work out A-OK for everyone.
Given this thread’s occasional proximity in the list to another thread titled “Cats Trailer out” (and that thread full of people who thought the project looked unappealing), I initially assumed this thread was about that movie in some way, promoting a documentary of behind-the-scenes shenanigans in its production.
The clarification offered by respondents in this thread makes me want to not check out the documentary because I love cats and don’t need more outrage in my life. If Luka Magnotta spends the rest of life in prison, ending in death by natural causes or a good painful shanking, I’ll consider that about as satisfactory an ending as can be expected.
So, the private citizens investigating the cat video weren’t able to prevent him from murdering a person, and even without the cats, the authorities (who had a lot more resources available to them) would have investigated and found him.
What’s the part where the cat-investigators were relevant?
Okay so I am intrigued about the documentary but do they actually show the animal cruelty parts of the videos or its just like the bits shown in the trailer?
I saw the movie, it was fantastic! For those who are worried, they leave out the worst parts of the guy killing the cats (and the human).
After the series, I looked the guy up. It seems that there is a lot the series left out. Probably could have been ten episodes, not three.
That’s definitely a good point. You’re not going to find me shedding any tears for horrible things happening to people who deliberately torture and kill kittens (or puppies, or any other helpless creature)…sorry, but my kindness doesn’t extend that far. Good riddance to them. But I agree that internet vigilantism can get out of hand. I didn’t know any innocent people were harmed in this case.
Can you clarify what you mean by “leave out the worst parts”? For me, showing any part of kittens being tortured and killed would be “the worst parts.” I think the only way I could watch this was if his deeds were described (and not in detail) but not shown. And definitely not if any part of an actual video (showing him hurting actual kittens) was displayed.
What they showed was the guy picking up the kittens, touching them softly even, before he would do what he did to them. That’s distressing enough, even though no cruelty was explicitly shown, because you knew what was about to happen (again, none of that was seen).
They do show a moment, long after the deed, however, where he’s playing with their bodies. It’s very brief.
Despite that, is was a fantastic and fascinating documentary if you like true crime. The internet sleuthing aspects, by ordinary (if not weirdly obsessive) people, was particularly intriguing.
Eh, we’ve probably put more effort into some topics here, that warranted it much less.
I agree that internet vigilantism can go too far, however the guy who committed suicide posted a video (which he claimed was of him) lighting a cat on fire. It was horrible. His family and associates stated that he had long term depression, among other issues. In other words, it’s not clear that the Internet folks had anything to do with his decision.
I watched the documentary. It was interesting. It was frustrating, but I suspect some of that was deliberately instilled in the construction of the film. The internet sleuths did some amazing work but in the film they never really connect with the police. The police investigation is conducted after the killing of humans started.
In reality, I believe there was a back and forth with law enforcement before the killing.
I saw the documentary. I liked it, somewhat to my surprise. I had a “holy shit” moment in the end, because of how the documentary ties it up. Not sure how they show us the pieces to tie it up that way is “true”, but it’s fascinating. Oddly enough, that has almost nothing to do with the animal cruelty.
As to the cruelty: it isn’t actually shown, but from the narration and interviews you know exactly what happens. I think it is handled about as well as possible, but no doubt some will still find it profoundly disturbing. I will never understand people who can even think of doing things like that, but I also know they’re out there regardless of any documentary.
Anyway, I found it interesting.
My daughter watched this yesterday and says I MUST watch it. After reading this I may just skip it.
I watched it. I was able to skip the parts with the cat killings. Even though they don’t show the videos in full, it was too stressful to even watch the beginnings of the videos. But they were easy enough to skip, and if I skipped too far I don’t feel like I missed anything.
There’s a puppy that is killed along with Jun Lin. You don’t see that in the video they play (you don’t see Lin being murdered at all, of course) but you do hear it yelp once, which is distressing.
Anyway, as far as the recent crop of serial killer/murderer documentaries go, this one was kind of lame. The people trying to find the guy via Facebook was an interesting “twist” to the usual stories but even that aspect of it was kind of creepy. The people who did the sleuthing really did get quite obsessed with it.
I guess I don’t know what to make of it. I think I usually come away from documentaries like this being depressed that people like Magnotta exist at all.
I came away from the documentary being thoroughly appalled at how badly the Montreal police bungled the murder investigation. The lead investigator on the case (at least initially) saw some ripped-up documents bearing the name of Magnotta, and concluded that the victim must be Magnotta, never once considering that the murderer might be Magnotta. :smack: Be better, Montreal police.
I really enjoyed it, and stayed up way too late last weekend to see all 3 episodes.
I knew about Luka Magnotta, but had no idea he made these cat killing videos before his other crimes.
For people who are staying away from it because you’re afraid of seeing cats getting killed, please don’t. You don’t see cats getting killed. And you can fast forward through the parts where the videos are being described.
This documentary was crazy good. The obsessiveness of that Facebook group reminded me so much of the forums that were devoted to the Travyon Martin murder–with people analyzing video and audio a million different ways.
I just finished it last night. Brutal, fascinating, and compelling. I liked the storytelling by the film makers, and the final wrap up is kind of like the end of “The Usual Suspects” where they play back moments from earlier in the documentary and things just add up. It’s a bit manipulative, but effective.
Nothing gruesome is shown on screen, but it’s still difficult to watch because you know what happens off screen. And you see the emotion on the faces of the people being interviewed.
Highly recommended, but know what you’re getting into before you start.