Just like The Fall, The Staircase is a deep and insightful look into what goes through a person's mind. In fact, it's better than The Fall as it's a documentary.
This mini-series (just one season) is kind of a mirror to those who proclaim to know their close ones and friends better than they know themselves!
Very few people know their own minds with clarity and objective observation, which comes only through deep, long, and periodic contemplation... Most live a life of projections and wear their masks and facades to hide from the world and from themselves what they truly are. So, I find it pretty preposterous when people claim to know their best friend or partner better than the best friend or partner knowing himself/herself!
Well, this series is a documentary on the death of American novelist Michael Peterson's second wife, Kathleen.
The documentary follows 15 years of a death's aftermath... How it consumes and changes the lives of all associated with it.
What happens during the long trial and its closure (?!) is an interesting watch of how a family and extended family reacts to the same incident.
How an independent incident that happened some years ago can come up to impact the present. How correlation and causation can be confusing.
How secrets, sexual orientations, and dark sides can come back to haunt you later in life.
How biases and prejudices impact a jurors and even the sitting judge! How a defense lawyer can go all out to protect his client, how the prosecution may have fiddled or fumbled to get their alleged murderer.
How external factors can make or break a good life.
It shows how destiny and fate are closely inter-related and how this interplay is what makes life so unpredictable.
This mini-series (just one season) is kind of a mirror to those who proclaim to know their close ones and friends better than they know themselves!
Very few people know their own minds with clarity and objective observation, which comes only through deep, long, and periodic contemplation... Most live a life of projections and wear their masks and facades to hide from the world and from themselves what they truly are. So, I find it pretty preposterous when people claim to know their best friend or partner better than the best friend or partner knowing himself/herself!
Well, this series is a documentary on the death of American novelist Michael Peterson's second wife, Kathleen.
The documentary follows 15 years of a death's aftermath... How it consumes and changes the lives of all associated with it.
What happens during the long trial and its closure (?!) is an interesting watch of how a family and extended family reacts to the same incident.
How an independent incident that happened some years ago can come up to impact the present. How correlation and causation can be confusing.
How secrets, sexual orientations, and dark sides can come back to haunt you later in life.
How biases and prejudices impact a jurors and even the sitting judge! How a defense lawyer can go all out to protect his client, how the prosecution may have fiddled or fumbled to get their alleged murderer.
How external factors can make or break a good life.
It shows how destiny and fate are closely inter-related and how this interplay is what makes life so unpredictable.
