Like many Americans in the early Auths, the documentary director David Osit watched “To arrest the predator, Chris Hansen Work in coordination with law enforcement during the bite operations that were exposed to adult men who were hoping for sex with minors.
“I found it wonderful, strange and strange addiction,” he confesses. “In many ways, it was a kind of modern crime TV model.”
But he never gave a series of NBC a lot even after years when he encountered an article on Bill Conradt, an assistant lawyer in Texas who committed suicide in 2007 after the police served him with a memorandum caused by an internet investigation in Hansen on the Internet in the potential Air Shouf. Hansen and his crew were at the scene when Conrad shot himself. The episode eventually broadcast, but NBC press was criticized for violating the moral lines and the Conradet family. “To arrest the predator,” he went out of the air next year. Reading about the story led to the bottom of the rabbit hole, where he looked more about the heritage of the show, which discovered that there was a small flavor, but intense on the Internet to “arrest a predator”. That was collected, through the requests of the Freedom of Information Law, raw shots made by the offer. Seeing it in the head area.
He recalls, “Watching it was a different kind of emotional experience,” he recalls. “I would like to see this raw material and I feel sad for these men in a way that I never felt when I watched the show, but then I read a chat record for their comments, and I feel disgusted by them again, but then I return to hear a phone call between them and a trap and I feel bad for them once Another.
The result of Osit’s achievement in the effect of “Putting Pot into” is “it”Predators“A new documentary film that shows the first show this year Sandans Film FestivalAnd an experience showing interviews with Hansen, as well as many people in the orbit of the exhibition – from adult actors who played teenagers to law enforcement officials who arrested men. The final film raises great and sometimes worrying questions about the weak line that can be found between the press and vitality, as well as our strange charm while watching stories about corruption.
“What is happening with a lot of real crime TV is that it is a matter of confirmation mainly only what people already fear,” he says. “It helps to put more faith and confidence in the application of the law by saying that these are the people who can really reform society if there are things that frighten us and they are broken. This is the only solution that a real crime offer is offered. There is no occurrence to” pick up a predator “, As, instead of the police arresting men, they are also offset by an army of therapists who can try to help them overcome their lives and fix the problem they suffer from childhood.
It is not clear, OSIT reduces the behavior of sexual predators that target children – it is clear that it is one of the worst crimes that anyone can commit. He only believes that “picking a predator”, which often had entered into a frame and asks men who have been provided with the children who pushed them to act on these horrific impulses, is not really concerned with answering this question. It is not sure that public service can also be entertaining.
He says: “Every person has this kind of inner sense of good, bad, wrong, error and evil, but basically, we all simultaneously carry sympathy and cruelty.” “We all have in different degrees. It is the basis of our civilization. I realized that the show was really able to convert it into a formula to involve the masses. This is what a lot of reality TV, real crime television, and even documentaries. There is a copy of this film that can This is true.
OSIS admits that “Potential Path” has completed some of its declared goals.
He says: “It is clear that they had caught men who were in violation of the law by reaching the people who believed that they were limited.” “These men have been arrested and put in prison and put in the list of perpetrators of sexual crimes. This is all true in terms of realism. But what is concerned with me, what does this mean to our society as a whole? Have you stopped a problem? Is it designed to help prevent predators from The predators become a person who was designed to help the victims?
“Predators” also looks at the Copycat shows that appeared online, as the potential predators of Chris Hansen, then confronting them in public places, were often attracted.
“Most of them are not television programs,” says Osit. “They were not released. They are just a kind of live broadcast. I have a real fear. It is just civilians facing other civilians. There are some videos in which you will see just confrontation with a man and then leave, then leave film makers. There were cases of killing people doing this on my side Camera. It is very dangerous.
Perhaps “to arrest a predator” has been out of air nearly 20 years ago, but Hansen is still in it. In 2020, he participated in the establishment of Trublu’s true crime service and still hosts the offers that make him managing various bite. The true crime formula that helped promote an endless set of films, documentaries, shows and podcasts has been born.
“It is the dominant means, and I think we have never understood the reason for what it is doing,” says Autos. “Many of these programs draw the world in terms of Bible. There are black and there is white. I am more interested in seeing gray.”
