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Me Hereafter (2024)
Production Liberties
Honestly, how dare anyone who touched the creation of this series: the narcissism and disrespect of choosing to speak for someone who is dead. It feels macabre, it feels arrogant for people to be like 'Oh yeah that's totally what she would say lets put that': even with the family participation in the creation of the episodes it is WILDLY out of place and does nothing but sound contrived and feel gross. Some random voice-over person saying "It won't bring me back, but in a way I'm STILL here" in a sad voice just does NOT do any part of a victim justice and completely detracts from a pretty standard Real Crime docuseries. The crimes were FASCINATING, but every time someone chimed in like a weird ghost hanging out in the back of the squad car with the detectives, it just KILLED whatever was going on.
America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
Not as promised.
So yeah... the title, description and first few moments are NOTHING like the rest of the film. This, as it turns out, is not a 'what if' exploration into the question, "What if America never existed?" It does not answer questions like, "What if Germany got the Atom Bomb first (because America never existed)" or "what if Russia made it to the moon first (because America never existed)." It's just "America done bad. OR HAS IT?!" and it was all very misleading and disappointing - the first few moments were super cool and what I THOUGHT was the start of a though provoking journey.
If nothing else, the description needs to be changed to account with this misdirection - this is for people looking for some 'it's okay to be American' boost, and not for time-travelers who want to toy with history.