The Imposter
Frédéric Bourdin - Imposter: Before I was born, I definitely had the wrong identity. I already didn't know - I was already prepared not to know who I really was. A new identity with a real passport, an American passport... I could go to the U.S., go to school there, live with that family, and just being someone and don't have never again to worry about being identified. I saw the opportunity.
That was an interesting documentary.
Going in I couldn't begin to guess what i was about to watch, where the focus was going to be on in regards to the final message of it all, how it was all going to be laid out. . .
Nor did I consider any possible twist to a story that, from the get-go was already established:
Bourdin is an imposter looking for an identity and the opportunity presented himself and he took that opportunity.
An hour and half later, having watched the interviews of the family, and of the imposter who detailed how it came to be, and how the family were willing to believe he was the boy that had gone missing three years prior. Then came the twisted reasoning of what may actually have happened to the missing boy, I noticed just how easy it was for me to take what Bourdin was saying, in the beginning and through most of it, as simple truth; went spinning in those final ten minutes and more so as the placards came up leaving me, much like those in the documentary; the family, the FBI, the detective who noticed, due to the shape of the ears that he was not who was trying to claim he was, to the family who was then accused of being the ones responsible for the child disappearing, with far too many questions to even attempt to muddle through them all.
The ending definitely creates a lasting impression leaving all the unanswered questions dangling for us, the viewers, to deal with and ponder over.
A good documentary that kept my interest throughout. Thanks to whomever nominated it for me.