The context of the documentary, The Confession, directed and produced by Oleh J. Rumak, Marie Caloz and Angela Gilbert, written and hosted by Bob McKeown on CBC’s The Fifth Estate takes place in an interrogation room at Ottawa Police Headquarters. It is here where Russell Williams, a former Colonel in Canadian Forces Base Trenton, confesses to two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of forcible confinement, two counts of breaking and entering and sexual assault. He was interrogated by Detective Sergeant Jim Smyth, a member of the Ontario Provincial Police’s Behavioural Sciences Unit, on February 7, 2010.
Ten days prior to his interrogation, a 27-year-old woman named Jessica Lloyd had vanished near William’s town of Tweed, Ontario. When a tip was given to the police about an SUV that was spotted parked in front of Lloyd’s house the night she vanished, the Ontario Provincial Police began an extensive search for motor vehicles in the area that matched the tire tread marks found on Lloyd’s property. William’s Pathfinder tires resembled the exact marks, and he was on surveillance ever since.
The interview lasted approximately ten hours. In William’s confession he described details of his crimes, including the two murders he convicted against Jessica Lloyd and Corporal Marie-France Comeau, multiple sex assaults in Tweed and 82 fetish break-ins and thefts. He admitted to police that he photographed thousands of pictures of his victims and of himself dressed in stolen underwear and bra’s, and told them where they can find these evidence.
William later identified to Detective Jim Smyth on a map where he dumped Jessica Lloyd’s body. When police searched the area, they found Lloyd’s body exactly where he said it would be. Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert F. Scott sentenced William’s on October 22, 2010 to two concurrent terms of life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.
The content of the documentary is told through the host Bob McKeown’s narration, comments and analysis by expert individuals involved with the police force and raw personal footage from the two surveillance cameras placed within the interrogation room. Banter, comments and accusations are a two-person shot between the host and various expert individuals, which are placed in between the raw surveillance footages. I believe the way this documentary was executed was very powerful, informative, moved the emotions of the audience, direct, personal, and over all a very persuasive successful documentary.
Again, you are doing a lot of plot summarizing. Trim that part down to a minimum and get more critical in your approach.
ReplyDelete