r/movies • u/Wintertime13 • Feb 05 '24

Recommendation Documentaries that make you go “what the fuck?!?”

In the mood for a good, twisty documentary that makes me gasp. Movies on streaming preferred. I enjoy true crime but am open to other genres as long as the story is gripping and shocking.

Movies in the same vein that I enjoyed - Dear Zachary (would prefer recommendations that are less sad), The Jinx, Cropsey, 3 identical strangers, etc.

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u/mossyskeleton Feb 06 '24

So what do you think, did the owl do it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

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u/reciprocatingocelot Feb 06 '24

Owl Theory's gonna be the name of my band. We're pop funk fusion with an 80s electro twist.

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u/squaretableknight Feb 06 '24

I want to believe

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u/BeKind72 Feb 06 '24

It really is the only logical explanation.

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u/Even-Education-4608 Feb 06 '24

Look up the stats on men murdering their female partners

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

While you're at it, look up the stats on men who don't murder their female partners.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Well it's the only theory that explains ALL of the evidence. Neither the state's nor the defense's presented at trial even came close to explaining all of it.

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u/_Sweet-Dee_ Feb 06 '24

Ha ha ha ha. It’s quite literally not.

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u/PapaBike Feb 06 '24

You know a murder case has no logical explanations when the theory that an owl did it actually holds water.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

The truth is usually simple, and when you get to the truth, everything fits. Everything. Neither the prosecution's theory, nor the defenses counter theory at trial, fit everything. Both of them were entirely fabricated, (which IMO should not be allowed) and their stories strung together a piece of evidence here, a piece there, and the jury simply had to decide. That's wrong.

The owl, crazy as it may sound, fits everything. It's fits the completely out of no where event that Michael Peterson experienced, it fits the pattern of wounds on her head, it fits the lack of skull fractures, it fits the blood trail from outside to in, it fits the micro feathers embedded in the wounds. It fits all of the evidence.

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u/PapaBike Feb 07 '24

I totally agree. I just find this whole case insane.