Definitely true crime tales have been tailored for the display many occasions. What’s wild about this one is that Durst himself watched “All Good Issues” and determined that he preferred it. After years of refusing to speak to the information media, he contacted Jarecki and mentioned he’d be prepared to take a seat down for interviews. In a really actual sense, “All Good Issues” is the rationale “The Jinx” even exists.
However the strangest half — I can’t wrap my head round it — is that Durst provided to document a commentary observe for the DVD launch of “All Good Issues.” On it, he largely concurs with the order of occasions, whereas by no means admitting outright to the murders. He agrees {that a} disturbing scene by which Marks grabs Katie’s hair and nearly drags her out of a household celebration really occurred; he says that one scene, by which Katie flees to a neighbor’s house throughout a battle, is “roughly correct.” His solely actual quibble is the suggestion that he killed the household canine.
That is the form of transfer calculated to baffle, and the extra you attempt to clarify it, the much less sense it makes. Was Durst conscious of how this regarded? Did he have a screw or two unfastened? Had he merely lived his life within the form of ultrarich world that may free one from the bounds of time, house and logic? Or did he merely assume he was smarter than everybody else and will by no means actually get caught?
“The Jinx: Half Two” goes a great distance towards suggesting these final two questions, mixed, present the reply. In spite of everything, 5 years after “All Good Issues,” he was the star of an HBO documentary sequence, one he clearly thought wouldn’t indict him. He was so rich that his pals, whether or not they preferred him or not, have been prepared to show a blind eye to no matter they may suspect in an effort to keep in his good graces. Why wouldn’t you assume you have been invincible?
The brand new present returns us to the “Jinx” courtroom scene, too. When you watched a film about your self and the crimes you might have dedicated, and also you known as up the director and mentioned you’d like to speak, and also you recorded a really complimentary commentary observe, then a lawyer’s argument that it’s only a story somebody made up doesn’t maintain as a lot water. It’s indisputably true that media and leisure affect the way in which juries view circumstances — that’s simply a part of a human-based justice system.
However leisure doesn’t exist in a parallel dimension. It weaves by way of society at giant, influencing how we view each other and, extra necessary, ourselves. Even when we’re jurors. Even when we’re Robert Durst.
