In the new documentary of David Osit “Predators”, the director includes a short clip from the episode of the mid -two thousand “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” The fact that the leading night struggle with the administration of Trump in free speech with the administration of Trump is not even close to a glimpse in his eyes,-representatives of the news journalist Chris Hansen to the audience. “Our next guest is the host of the funniest comedy on television. This is called “catching a predator,” says Kimmel with a grin when the laughter of the audience of the studio calls in the background. “If you have not seen this, it is like“ Punk'D ”for pedophiles.”
The characteristic of Kimmel Hansen show was possibly picked up, but it was also not able to. “To catch a predator”, which was aired from 2004 to 2007 as part of the News-store-store “Dateline NBC”, in fact, was a hidden camera. However, unlike the offer of the MTV of Aston, Kuther, his subjects did not become celebrities who became victims of a practical joke, but instead, the public representatives lured into Sting House under the impression that they were going to have sex with a minor who played at the age, but the young bait, with whom they talked on the Internet. Once in the house, these people encountered Hansen and his crew, and then arrested local law enforcement agencies. (The constant farewell promise of the owner – “you are free to go” – was recognized as a direct police involved in the commission of criminals when they tried to leave the premises.)
None of this may seem especially funny, but what struck me when I watched the “predators” is a thoughtful and alarming documentary, which uses a combination of archival clips, raw shots and interviews with a speaking head to study the story and heritage to “hit”-they were how Merozhni appeared again and around the show. This is there in the excitable interaction of OPRA with Hansen, when she accepts him in her program; He is in the noisy response of the audience of the True Convention, when its members watch Hansen's frames, casting doubt on the predator; It is even there in the barely hidden entertainment of a police lieutenant when she tells Hansen that one predator, whom she was going to capture, shot in his head when he ran face to face with law enforcement agencies.
The impulse of revenge, of course, plays a role in these joyful answers: as one woman who served as a bait in operations with a pedophile, says Ozit directly: “damn funny when a bad person receives what comes to them.” But the focus of the director’s attention on laughter also stands behind the great critical point that he is trying to get. To observe the “predators”-it is necessary to understand that the “catch” was functioning primarily as entertainment, which largely acted for other praise missions, to serve justice in order to get to the bottom of sexual pathology, to ensure comfort, in order to abuse the survivors, while also smoothing out of significant humanity of the subjects of the show, the transformation The exhibited exhibited exhibit exhibited exhibited exhibit exhibited exhibit exposeric.
The “catch” was a tightly edited show, which relied on repeated blows to satisfy its spectators, and one of the ways by which the OSIT documentary begins to weaken that a fixed acquaintance is to include long moments of raw shots shot during various shoots, but remaining on a cut floor. In these clips, we see predators when, having encountered Hansen or, later, by law enforcement agencies, crying, apologies, asking for forgiveness, consultations and help – all of which the show, whose main goal is to increase the perversion and its punishment in the spectacle, cannot and does not want to provide them. (“I could say that you are a therapist”, hoping that one of the men tells Hansen, what the owner reacts to, with some distrust – do you think that I am a therapist? ”) Observation of how these men are destroyed – this is an uncomfortable experience, and Osh, surviving children's violence, does not try to say that they are good or crazy. (“I don’t think this is justified,” he says, about the predation of men.) Nevertheless, as Ethnographer Mark de Rond about personnel says, “to show these people as people, the show is, as it were, breaks. And, perhaps, this is why he did not do it on TV. ”
The transformation of people in fetishas who should be observed, and not understand, was not just a characteristic of the “catch”, but also the popular culture as a whole during the broadcast of the show. At some point, the OSIT documentary includes the MSNBC archival clip from the Country Skarborough conservative news show, which, immediately after the interview with Hansen about Catch, continues to promote the upcoming segment of Britney Spears for mental health. “Oh, she left again!” Voice review along with the video of the singer, smiling and waving on the red carpet. “The second stay of Britney in rehabilitation ended and made. So, can anyone or anything convince her to get help, so desperately in need? ” Spears of Spears as a minor star could hardly be extracted from a later struggle, for which she was publicly ashamed of, and when I watched the clip, it was difficult not to think about how to “catch”, it was convenient to avoid discussion, how predators who revealed did not work alone alone; The culture itself was predatory.
It also mentions that the “catch” did not appear in the general vacuum. In the beginning-invention, two thousand reality shows was a relatively young category that still found the basis, and the era was replete with a show, whose complete vulgarity pushed the envelope of the environment, as far as possible. Programs such as the “swan” of 2004, in which a group of women underwent an extensive plastic surgery, which became conditionally attractive during the season, or “Who is your dad” in 2005, in which eight men competed for the payment of a hundred thousand dollars, trying to convince the adoptive woman that he was her biological father, were part of the reality of Era Lingva France. As this shows, “catching” was characterized by the desire not only to document the pain of people, but also to pamper themselves and to benefit from it.
