The star of The Great is brilliant as the girl at the heart of a real-life suicide case – despite a shallow script and ethical concerns
he extraordinary story of the Massachusetts teenagers Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy III has already been told at least three times. Once in the news reports and lurid headlines that accompanied Carter’s arrest, trial and conviction for manslaughter, then – as is legally required in the US – a Lifetime movie and a meticulous, sober, brilliant two-part documentary by Erin Lee Carr calledThat film laid out the case against Carter as the prosecution had written it.
The film didn’t have all the answers, but raised the right questions. It asked how ready we are to admit the endless convolutions of the human mind and how far they can be understood by outsiders . It queried the prejudices embedded in our institutions and the inadequacy of our laws. It pondered our collective ability to deal with the new and awful things technology can enable people to do to each other.
The performances are great. Fanning walks a series of fine lines – between normal adolescent intensity and delusion, between youthful egocentricity and narcissism, between love and need – with aplomb. Her Carter is just slightly, exquisitely wrong at every turn – too friendly, too close, too keen, too muchRyan is deeply moving as a boy who cannot find a way out of the mental straitjacket his family dynamic and brain chemistry have put him into.
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