The conversation either immediately or eventually turns explicitly sexual.
He decides to take things one step further and arrange an in-person encounter.
Whats going on here?
A scene from the documentary ‘Predators’Sundance Institute.
Sometimes, the guy recognizes Hansen.
Other times, he has no idea who this handsome guy with the broadcast-news baritone is.
Either way, you really begin paying attention to the first mans face at this point.
A host of different emotions play out.
But it tends to end up in the universal expression for: I am totally fucked.
Youre free to go, Hansen often says.
Why have we kept tuning in to see these creeps get caught?
Why has it taken a television show to bust them?
In the long run, hasTo Catch a Predatoractually done more harm than good?
Hansen has a history of reading out chat-room transcripts, and things get ugly in those conversations quickly.
No ones told they can speak to a lawyer.
I dont wanna watch this, one decoy says.
Its making me feel sorry for them.
(We believe thats a crime as well?)
This, as much as the actual justice that gets served, is the shows legacy.
Take the law into your own hands.
Just see to it the camera is rolling.
The movie doesnt end with answers, only more dangling questions.
Its still an absolutely fascinating watch.
The doc currently remains without a distributor.
Someone needs to snatch this up ASAP.
