Everything I Tell You Very Well Could Be A Lie
A few weeks ago, I reviewed Unknown White Male, a documentary about Doug Bruce, who claimed to have suffered near-total amnesia and forgotten his past. I thought it was a well-made if languid movie, though there was no way to know if Bruce wasn't faking it. Yesterday, a piece in the Washington Post went even further in refuting Bruce's claims. Had I the resources, I would have conducted a similar side inquiry when preparing my review, but not having the WaPo name behind me and being only a barely employed schmo from SoCal, I doubt my phone calls would have been returned.
Perhaps the most damning evidence against Bruce is director Rupert Murray's refusal to have had Bruce submit to an fMRI before filming the documentary. In the kind of logic worthy of politics, Murray says: "I was telling his story. Not your story, not the story of a journalist. The story of a friend, and I don't have to f***ing prove anything to anyone." However, this isn't a legal proceeding, and pleading the Fifth can only incriminate you in the court of public opinion.
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