With Mister Organ, davidfarrier is going down another surprisingly dark rabbit hole for our disbelieving amusement. kevinfoxjr's PFF31 review:
is a remarkable film: A comedic horror of a documentary, a simple piece of investigative journalism descending into madness and a spotlight on the human spirit’s capacity for darkness. It’s a drama and thriller created out of real-life footage of strange-as-fiction events. It’s the story of David Farrier trying to unravel the mystery of Michael Organ, a man who burrows into people’s lives and destroys them.
Spoilers are a bigger deal with fiction films, but even fictional films of good quality can’t be ruined by knowing how they go. A nonfiction film likeis so full of surprises that I don’t want to disrupt the experience by telling them all to you, but I will say that even if I spelled it all out, it would still entertain and unsettle.
The legal challenges stem from Michael Organ, who is at once the legal representative of antique shop owner Jillian Bashford-Evans and the proprietor of the parking security company she allegedly contracts with. The litigious Organ is a one-time boat thief, former false claimant to royalty and an apparent energy vampire who’s left a trail of abused and broken ex-roommates in his wake. He becomes the object of Farrier’s fascination—and his tormentor.
We are free to draw conclusions about Organ’s mental wellbeing in that fashion. What we’re invited to do is consider how many Michael Organs there are out in the world, appearing innocuous but later revealing their insidiousness; implanting themselves in tight-knit communities and gutting them of core members; playing with people’s lives for no apparent reason except amusement and entitlement; thriving materially off other people’s labor and luck.
more weight, imploring us not just to judge an individual but to look at the consequences of patterns of action, to see how they can affect others.’s thrill ride is the race against time: We wonder if Farrier can survive the experience, can gain some insight into Organ’s desires and drive, before the time he spends with Organ drives him insane. In the end, closure isn’t completely had, because it’s not fiction—it’s a documentary of recent events focused mostly on still-living people.
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