5/10/2023 0 Comments American animals eric borsukAmerican Animals mostly consists of fictional re-creations of the Transylvania University robbery, but it also includes interviews with the perpetrators themselves, reminiscing on their past crimes. It featured straight-to-camera interviews with everyone involved and was driven by very personal drama-by the strange leaps of logic that allowed this family to believe their son had returned to them. Layton, a veteran of British TV, has made one other feature film-2012’s The Imposter, a documentary about a French conman who convinced a Texas family that he was their long-lost son, despite looking nothing like him. It’s a film that tosses questions at the viewer with no interest in answering them, one that can’t decide if it feels for its subjects or just wants to mock their incompetence. Why did four privileged college students decide, in 2004, to pull off a violent art robbery at Kentucky’s Transylvania University, despite their lack of criminal expertise? That’s the underlying mystery of Bart Layton’s American Animals, a too-cute cross between a heist movie and a true-crime documentary that ends up borrowing the worst traits of both.
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