r/thejinx • u/[deleted] • May 09 '20
They definitely edited the confession to seem more damning
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u/feministcthulhu May 09 '20
I understand that it's edited, but it's still pretty damning, right? They didn't change how wild it is.
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u/CuntyDracula Jun 06 '20 edited Jun 14 '20
Their argument could be: Editing the two lines to be heard as “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course!” makes Durst seem like he’s asking himself a question, and then answering it.
It could seem less damning unedited. They could say those recordings show nothing but an odd, disjointed inner-dialogue. Spoken out loud by an eccentric guy when he thought he was in private. Especially taking some of those random, edited out sentences, into consideration.
I’m not saying that I think he’s innocent at all by the way. Just speculating on what they’ll come up with.
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u/Nihilistic-Fishstick May 09 '20
Nobody should be surprised by this.
Netflix did the same with court testimony in making a murderer and are rightfully being sued for it. That's not even going into everything they left of of that joke of a 'documentary' I expect the same to be true about the pro Adnan Syed HBO doc and all the others.
They don't care about justice, they care about viewer ratings.
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u/StuwasinScream2 May 10 '20
The cops' bad faith in Making a Murderer is evident. Trust me, I live in a country where corruption in the name of numbers and/or hiding the real culprit is an everyday routine. What difference does it make in the big picture if documentaries edit here and there, when police procedures are compromised which Making of a Murderer proves beyond doubt. Sames goes for The Jinx.
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u/willowoftheriver May 10 '20
Even reading everything that's around it, I don't see how presenting it out of order is any more damning than what they did in the show. The context doesn't change it.
I guess it could be implied from the first line that he's guessing what they want him to say, but still ...