InkHeart
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Has anyone seen this?
It's a new series following Neil, the son of Sandra Rivett, who Lord Lucan murdered in 1974. Neil teams up with an investigative reporter called Glen Campbell, and they travel to Australia following a series of clues they believe lead to Lord Lucan. For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a very interesting watch. For anyone who has seen it, what did you think?
My thoughts below - spoilers.
It's a new series following Neil, the son of Sandra Rivett, who Lord Lucan murdered in 1974. Neil teams up with an investigative reporter called Glen Campbell, and they travel to Australia following a series of clues they believe lead to Lord Lucan. For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's a very interesting watch. For anyone who has seen it, what did you think?
My thoughts below - spoilers.
For a while during the search, I thought the leads they were following were compelling. It was around the time that they started following religious sects that it fell apart for me. It started to be like Lucan's brother mentioned one type of Buddhism, so that definitely proved that any old man who was a Buddhist must be Lucan.
When you finally saw that old man come out in the house, I realised right away that it wasn't him. Something the documentary fails to mention is that Lucan was 6'4''. Yes, people shrink when they get older, but not by a whole foot. And the ears and nose were completely not alike.
When Neil interviewed the old man over Zoom, I started to think the old man probably had dementia. It is easy to get people with dementia to agree with anything. You can say "The sky is green, isn't it?" and they will say yes. It was clear to me that this old guy was just agreeing with anything but actually had no idea what was going on.
I am curious where all the money came from the fund these trips around the world. Who decided to give these deluded men their own tv show? At first it seemed that Glen was trying to be supportive while being aware of Neil's shortcomings, but in episode 3, Glen seemed convinced by the laughably bad conclusions Neil was coming up with, so I thought they were both unintelligent and wrapped up with seeing themselves as the detectives in a spy thriller.
There are some moments where you can see a side of Neil I don't like. When he's with his daughter and she is crying about how horrible everything is for her poor dad, you can just see Neil giving a micro smile to himself. I think he is loving the attention and feelings of importance. I started the documentary feeling sorry for him because of his mother's horrible death. But I think you catch glimpses that he is in it for his own ego. He even says things like how his mother deliberately left him this destiny.
You see how his partner is totally checked out from his BS. As she says, it's good to have a mission in life, but he now is so obsessed with Lucan that she can't even talk to him about what's for tea or where to go on holiday without him bringing it back to Lucan. Though that said, anyone notice that Glen called his dog Lucan? Creepy tit.
The person I felt the most sorry for - apart from Sandra - was her old boyfriend. He seemed like the only sane and nice person involved with the story, and I actually cried when he spoke about how he'd asked Sandra to change her shifts, which ended up with her being at the house that night. That's such an awful burden to live with. I think Neil should have done more to comfort him when he said that he blamed himself, but Neil is busy being the ultimate victim.
When you finally saw that old man come out in the house, I realised right away that it wasn't him. Something the documentary fails to mention is that Lucan was 6'4''. Yes, people shrink when they get older, but not by a whole foot. And the ears and nose were completely not alike.
When Neil interviewed the old man over Zoom, I started to think the old man probably had dementia. It is easy to get people with dementia to agree with anything. You can say "The sky is green, isn't it?" and they will say yes. It was clear to me that this old guy was just agreeing with anything but actually had no idea what was going on.
I am curious where all the money came from the fund these trips around the world. Who decided to give these deluded men their own tv show? At first it seemed that Glen was trying to be supportive while being aware of Neil's shortcomings, but in episode 3, Glen seemed convinced by the laughably bad conclusions Neil was coming up with, so I thought they were both unintelligent and wrapped up with seeing themselves as the detectives in a spy thriller.
There are some moments where you can see a side of Neil I don't like. When he's with his daughter and she is crying about how horrible everything is for her poor dad, you can just see Neil giving a micro smile to himself. I think he is loving the attention and feelings of importance. I started the documentary feeling sorry for him because of his mother's horrible death. But I think you catch glimpses that he is in it for his own ego. He even says things like how his mother deliberately left him this destiny.
You see how his partner is totally checked out from his BS. As she says, it's good to have a mission in life, but he now is so obsessed with Lucan that she can't even talk to him about what's for tea or where to go on holiday without him bringing it back to Lucan. Though that said, anyone notice that Glen called his dog Lucan? Creepy tit.
The person I felt the most sorry for - apart from Sandra - was her old boyfriend. He seemed like the only sane and nice person involved with the story, and I actually cried when he spoke about how he'd asked Sandra to change her shifts, which ended up with her being at the house that night. That's such an awful burden to live with. I think Neil should have done more to comfort him when he said that he blamed himself, but Neil is busy being the ultimate victim.
