JonBenet's Tricycle (2018) User Reviews

Incredible Documentary

[laurenski-39835 · 10/10 · 16 December 2018]

Extremely interesting documentary! It really brought me back to this time! Very insightful and well made. I fully enjoyed watching this! Thanks Andrew!

More than a tricycle

[ameliahollows · 10/10 · 15 December 2018]

An honest, intriguing, and thought provoking look into a perceived shared human experience and the power of perception. This movie demonstrates connections from an inanimate object to individual and mass perceptions to media power to the indoctrination of value and does so while demonstrating and exploiting the power of exploitation and the creation of both sanitized and demonized pop culture. An excellent escape from mass produced brain candy for anyone wanting to dive through the depths of their own mental rabbit hole to explore and challenge their own mindsets.

Some things have a life all their own

[veronikasprinkel · 10/10 · 16 December 2018]

This documentary is so much more than the story of an inanimate object. It details one man's obsession with collecting found objects; and somehow spirals into the mysterious murder of child-pageant-star, JonBenét Ramsey. From there, the film pedals its way through a metaphysical landscape in which moral bankruptcy and criminal acts just might be explained. It's like a cinematic hall of mirrors where more questions are floated than answers given. A must see for anyone interested in humanity at its most outrageous, absurd, curious, tragic, and fun.

Hippie creeper steals other people's belongings

[Justaguywhokeepsereal · 1/10 · 24 October 2023]

Initially I thought the documentary was going to be about a collector who buys nostalgia from high profile murder cases. Instead what I got was a 50-year colorado hippie manchild who tries to document his own boring existence, rubbish artifacts, basically other people's junk. The guy this documentary is based on is just plain creepy. I don't mean that in an interesting way I mean that in a pure child bicycle fetish way. The so-called filmmaker is interviewed through this entire movie by a man who doesn't really add anything to the film other than laugh at the financer's jokes. I think they're jokes. They seem to spend an equal amount of time putting the camera on the man interviewing the filmmaker. It's all quite strange. Very little content, nothing nostalgic or interesting, no shocks or hidden finds, it's all just hype and clickbait. It's pretty much what you would expect given the region it's filmed in (Denver). Basically if you're in the mood for watching a college film project, made by a 50-year-old, who can't decide whether he's a hippie or whether he's a 10-year-old (Yes my nephew has a haircut just like his), oh I give up explaining anymore. It's just depressing to watch. It basically represents everything you think of when you think of the last 4 years. The generation gap, the phoniness, the fake accents, the girl who has a deeper voice than the man she's interviewing. These are just a few of the things that distract from any content this film had an opportunity to share but didn't because lack of a storyline, lack of a plot, just lack of anything interesting to share in this so-called collectors junk collection.

Nothing like TruTV.

[cdplayer-29300 · 10/10 · 17 December 2018]

I was skeptical about a documentary on the JonBenet investigation. This was nothing like the TruTV expos which I consider a waste of time. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this documentary is literally about her tricycle: an object which can invoke emotions when considering the original owner was murdered at a tragically young age. The director is a fascinating collector of random objects; objects that are a part of a person's story we often never will hear or get to know. This documentary inspired me to continue to grow my collections and perhaps begin new ones. I just wanted to visit all my local thrift stores the very next day in search of new-to-me treasures with mysterious his and herstories.

Instrinsic value of everything

[podsntoddsinc · 10/10 · 17 December 2018]

The notion that pop culture and media play a huge role on our experience of tragedy was absolutely fascinating and well presented. I had no expectations going in the movie but I came out astounded. As a fellow Coloradan, and having a friend in the Boulder P.D. during the time of the tragedy, this film really stirred up a lot of old emotions. New information & perspectives were presented and elicit new questions to ponder. The real gem however, is Andrew himself, and his ability to see the intrinsic value of everything and rescuing pieces of American history for people to to rediscover.