A couple nights ago, I watched a 40-minute documentary short on Netflix streaming called Long Shot. It’s not aesthetic filmmaking – though it’s very nicely done, telling the tale extremely well...but what leaps out is that it's the most amazing story, with several twists that if you saw it in a fiction movie you’d think it was ridiculous. I don’t want to give anything away, but it’s about a young man wrongfully arrested for murder.
(in fact, if you do watch it, try to even avoid the Netflix description, because the less you know, the more the surprises will leap out.) I did know about one of the big twists, but not the main one – and when that one comes along I could only stare at the screen and go, “Oh, my God.” And then it twists further. Again, without giving anything away, I think a lot of people will be aware of something related to that main big twist. And oddly, for reasons I won't get into, I shouldn't have been -- but even I knew about it. And that it comes into play here is really quite utterly stunning. And when it reaches it's pinnacle, you're just in awe of how life sometimes works out, against all imaginable odds. I looked into posting the trailer here, but it gives away some of the twists, and I don't want to give away any. I did see a User Comment from someone who wrote, "This is the kind of story they should make movies about." Except that if they made this movie, and even said it was a true story, you'd still probably think they were making things up. Including the cliché that the prosecuting attorney had never lost a murder trial. The documentary zips by pretty quickly and is really enjoyable.
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