Primetime Exposes the Dark Side of True Crime
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Primetime Exposes the Dark Side of True Crime
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This week on WVIA Pop Shop, Allan Austin, Patrick Hamilton and Kara take on Primetime, the new film starring Robert Pattinson in a highly fictionalized retelling of the story behind NBC's To Catch a Predator.
The movie portrays Chris Hansen as a man driven by a complicated mixture of justice, ambition, celebrity and ratings—and uses the rise of his controversial television series to ask uncomfortable questions about the relationship between journalism and entertainment.
When crime becomes content, can the pursuit of justice remain the priority? What happens when public accountability becomes spectacle? And who gets to decide what justice looks like when television cameras, audiences and ratings enter the equation?
Allan and Patrick also examine the film's depiction of vigilantism and moral certainty, while Kara weighs in on the movie's deliberately uncomfortable visual style and the ways sensationalized crime can make the unfolding story more important than justice itself.
Plus, the Pop Shop crew is divided over Primetime: is its deeply unpleasant viewing experience one of the movie's biggest flaws—or exactly what makes it work?
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