User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Beware the Slenderman Documentary/@comment-24101790-20170128221829

Just saw the documentary earlier today and while I liked it, I felt like there were some things that could have been handled a little better. I liked the interview with the digital literature professor and the snippets of the girls being interviewed by police after the crime, but I feel like we didn't get a lot of the victim's story. I don't think they even went into detail about how she was found by someone biking who called paramedics.

I did like that closing shot of the art that people made for them as proxies, especially the lingering shot of Slenderman with his hands on the realistic picture of both the girls in cuffs although some context might have really driven the sad fact home that some kids do actually view these girls as proxies (I remember Mystreve actually deleted a proxy story submitted a few days after the stabbing which featured an 'OC' Morgan and Anissa.) and all the horror that entails.

In the end, I think that they were likely restricted from interacting with the victim or interviewing her (likely due to it being extremely traumatic) much like they were restricted at the start of the hearing from photographing the girls (which led to a lot of interesting shots of their back and hands as the crimes were being described) and turning up the girl's Youtube history led to some bittersweet moments (bunny eating a raspberry for example) which slowly transformed into something darker with the video of the mouse being fed to a cat. All in all, it was interesting, but there were some aspects that really would have driven everything home.