Doc Review - Crime Scene: Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

 A few years ago, pre-corona, I was away from home on what we then referred to as a business trip.  That was this thing where people left their homes and offices to conduct their work in another location.  I did it so often back then that I rarely got excited about it anymore.  There were airports, security lines, shuttles and trams, rental cars, uber rides, hotels to check into and all sorts of other things that often left little time beyond work to explore much.  And now I miss it terribly.  I don't remember which trip I was on, where exactly I was, or what portion of the wait part of the hurry-up-and-wait cycle of air travel I was in when I began reading an article about L.A.'s most notorious hotel.  I can't find the article anymore.  Thanks to the documentary I'm reviewing, a Google search using the keywords I'm looking for yields literally a hay field.  That's ok.  Finding it isn't critical to this review.  

Doc Review- Persona: The Dark Truth Behind Personality Tests

As I mentioned in the previous post, Persona is on my mind for 3 reasons:

1) the subject matter is a topic that I've had sincere interest in for over 20 years

2) the movie had an emotional impact on me that was deeply personal

3) it is not what I would consider a good movie, or a good use of the documentary format to deliver the kind of impact that it had so much potential to have.  

I stumbled on Persona while surfing for something to watch

I Do Love a Good Documentary, So Let's Talk About Them!

I firmly believe that the best way to tell a story that needs to be told is through a well done documentary.  If done right, the viewer leaves with not only a much better understanding of something they were at best only casually familiar with, but also an insatiable appetite to learn more about it.  Some of the greatest docs tell stories that are stranger than fiction...or put another way, if the story they told were instead a work of fiction, nobody would believe it could actually happen.  But they can also be good when you find out there is a whole other side to something you thought you knew.  

Rather than spend time narrowing it down to a short list and doing a deep dive on the top three,