productions based on real criminal cases were present in the television from virtually forever. Just to mention even the series “Dragnet” with the famous initial opinion: Ladies and gentlemen: story you hear is true . Documentaries, showing in detail the investigation of police officers, for example. “Forensic Files” ( “Files crime”), “48 hours” or “Cold Case Files”, the years have a permanent place in ramówkach. In 1996, he created even a special channel Investigation Discovery, which emits the same such productions. For seven years is available in Poland.
Last year, however, a renaissance when it comes to real crime in TV. Three new “investigation” series met with almost obsessive interest. “Serial”, “Making a Murderer” and “Cursed: the life and death of Robert Durst” caused a huge stir in the social media . The documentary series fascinated – simply could not be away from them, and the discussions on them could divide the most consistent family. Media experts say that there is a new trend and this type of production will be on the screen more and more.
Why are audiences so much love programs or series of real crimes? In this context, mention is made of the most frequently called. factor roller-coaster. They simply provide adrenaline, which really needs all of us. Some jump in this connection on the bungee, climbing or amateurs are driving fast, it requires only reading or watching horror stories. Why real? Because despite the fact that sit on the couch in his safe house, we know that the tragedy happened on the same estate as our , among people who like of us are no different. Awareness of this evokes in us a simple but extremely powerful feeling – fear.
In these productions is not smart psychiatrist-cannibal or a madman throwing the knife on taking a shower. In most cases, this simple stories of ordinary people whose lives have changed in one second. Realizing that it had really happened, and there was no figment of the imagination capable writer, our relationship becomes much more personal. Scott Bonn, a professor of criminology and author of the book “Why We Love Serial Killers”, in an interview with the magazine “Time” says that stories about real crimes are the adult equivalent of childhood tales of monsters. arouse in us anxiety, but in a controlled form .
Crime productions on facts give it the opportunity to dig into tells the story – is presented to us the enormity of the facts, including those that usually are intended only for officers of the law. Together with them we follow the evidence and look at the evidence. We can empathize with the role of “a bench” detective to combine information together and guess who is guilty. In the case of last year’s series there is another factor – a form of segmental. Long narratives, full of unexpected twists and turns or so. cliffhangerów, make such productions looks like eskcytującą soap opera. To say that the draw, how not say anything. We are dealing with addiction. We just need to know , which was next and how it ended. Programs or series of crimes become sinful pleasure of first grade. Why sinful? Because at some point we remember that behind these stories lie real people. Not only those whose example. Brutally murdered, but also their loved ones, surviving virtually endless drama. Watching these productions and drawing from some form of entertainment, we know it is wrong. We feel guilty, but we can not stop.
Some researchers also explain that people follow such programs, to experience (passive, but always) sense of justice. From the chaos observed in the beginning of the investigation emerges from the truth and this is to give viewers a sense of relief. While this theory works well for classical programs of investigation, “Serial”, “Making a Murderer” and “Cursed …” evoke very different emotions. Watching them, I doubt it, if justice really exists.
the history presented in “Haunted …” has its beginning in 1982. Wife of Robert Durst, a rich man coming from a family of New York real estate moguls, dies without a trace. Although Durst from the beginning was the prime suspect, there was no evidence. He pleaded not guilty, and the body was never found. Nearly twenty years later he is murdered his long-standing friend. Not much later – his neighbor. Prosecutors mainly circumstantial, and man playing with all cat and mouse . When on the disappearance of his wife created the film “All good things” with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, she speaks to the director and proposes to grant him an interview.
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