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User Reviews for: The Ripper

rafafinhass
2/10  3 years ago
Terrible documentary and in my opinion, it's not clear what's its intention. It seems like they wanted to follow the line of the culture of violence against women, but it is a very poorly portrayed message.

Four episodes are too few to embrace different layers of the case the way it did. For me, it could have either talked about the case and the police mistakes that surrounded it or talked about the culture of violence. In the end, nothing had depth, criticism was shallow and the case was poorly explained.

We didn't know about the first victims until the end of the third episode, we learned about the police mistakes in the fourth episode, the documentary's title and summary do not express at all what the documentary really talks about. I had the feeling that they wanted to make a plot twist that makes no sense in such a serious case.

I also found extremely disrespectful to talk about the victims in the end like that since we know nothing about them and the title doesn't even mention them and then to do this tribute that they clearly didn't care to pass along the episodes.

I also found it a disservice that they spoke of the defendant's mental condition without a psychiatrist to give an opinion, only people who aren't professionals in the matter. For a documentary that wants to talk about the danger of a single point of view, a woman literally say that the defendant did not deserve to go to the psychiatric hospital because she THOUGHT he was deceiving everyone and another one saying things about the defendant's past in a psychological way that she as a journalist doesn't even have the authority to speak about is super bizarre.

I was also bothered by the "feminist" message in the documentary. I think the question of "why can't women go out alone at 2 am and men can?" and this culture of violence against women rooted in society is SUPER important, but when we clearly have a serial killer who acts at night and the police have nothing on him, it seems stupid to me to keep trying to force that they were safe and able to do what they wanted, when they clearly could have been killed. There are many ways to talk about this and this is not one of them.

Anyway, the documentary is shallow, doesn't explain important details, has a strange narrative line and doesn't seem to be very sensitive neither in the background and reasons of the defendant nor in the history of the victims. It's forced and badly done.
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Reply by CancerMan69
one year ago
@rafafinhass couldn't agree more with that 6th paragraph.<br /> There's time and place for everything, avoiding a serial killer who killed more than a dozen women, should have a priority over trying to prove one's point
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