Recently having viewed the superb documentary The Last Forest (2021-also reviewed) at the WOW Film Festival,I decided to look for other docs to watch. Being a title which has sat in my "To watch" pile for years,I decided it was time to finally say, hello stranger.
View on the film:
Reuniting the three brothers with a extensive gathering of archive footage, director Tim Wardle & editor Michael Harte lay out the background to the events about to be unveiled with reconstruction sequences being mixed with real photos and well chosen moments of songs on the soundtrack, which sketches out the three differing households that the brothers lived in.
Investigating a subject that has no tidy conclusion, with each gripping Thriller-style from the interviews with the brothers widening the revelations about them and their families being secretly studied by psychologists during childhood, Wardle grasps for an ending, by (without offering hard evidence to back up the claim) nudging via overlapping narration and archive photos,that the parenting skills of Elliott Galland (who clearly still deeply misses his son) are to blame for the death of his son Eddie.
The blunt attempt at framing sadly leaves a distasteful taste to the ending,and dents leave the standard impression, on the documentary/ journalism that had been displayed earlier,in revealing the strangers.
View on the film:
Reuniting the three brothers with a extensive gathering of archive footage, director Tim Wardle & editor Michael Harte lay out the background to the events about to be unveiled with reconstruction sequences being mixed with real photos and well chosen moments of songs on the soundtrack, which sketches out the three differing households that the brothers lived in.
Investigating a subject that has no tidy conclusion, with each gripping Thriller-style from the interviews with the brothers widening the revelations about them and their families being secretly studied by psychologists during childhood, Wardle grasps for an ending, by (without offering hard evidence to back up the claim) nudging via overlapping narration and archive photos,that the parenting skills of Elliott Galland (who clearly still deeply misses his son) are to blame for the death of his son Eddie.
The blunt attempt at framing sadly leaves a distasteful taste to the ending,and dents leave the standard impression, on the documentary/ journalism that had been displayed earlier,in revealing the strangers.