2020 · documentary · slasher
Crazy, Not Insane
Directed by Alex Gibney1h 57m2020
Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.
Our read: Crazy, Not Insane (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive documentary · slasher entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured documentary / slasher, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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- twisty
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