The latest doc from David Farrier is still as absurd, upsetting, and excellent as his previous work. Our Mister Organ 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.
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