Spoilers: From the beginning, I was yelling at the tv that this is a one-source story and the guy providing the info is as nutty as a fruitcake. Don't write anything without more sources. So then Talese became a focus. What is this guy doing taking this seriously? He did because he wanted to. It was a good story he wanted to write. No matter what his rep was and his previous work. Was age making him slip up? In the end, he stood behind the story and book after he had repudiated it with Seth Meyers on 온라인카지노추천. Said the WaPost had valid criticism but that the thrust of the story was right despite the fuzziness over ownership of the motel. It seems Talese is still working at 92. Seems it was a semi-interesting piece about a liar who did or did not do this voyeuristic stuff, which became a little more interesting piece about how a famous writer got sucked into a real nothingburger. One-source stories can be poison and most journalists know it.

This one is so crazy that if it was fiction you would not believe it. Gay Talese, the famous journalist, tells this story as well as chronicles his own story and 50 year journalism career. He is a respected investigative journalist. This story will make you think twice when you ever check into a hotel or motel room again. Gerald Foos bought a motel for the sole purpose was to be a voyeur to the patrons who checked in to the establishment. The creepiest part of this guy is how he recounts for Talese this crime as if it is a legitimate scientific experiment. This film gives you an understanding of how Talese was so successful in his career getting people to open up to him. This relationship with Foos became the basis of the book, The Voyeur's Motel. You also get the perspective of a respectable Publisher dealing with a delicate and scandalous story. The interesting construct of this documentary is that while Poos disgusted me I found myself as a Voyeur fascinated but the Voyeur. This guys hatred of Dogs says a lot. This is a good watch. It made me laugh, angry, and disgusted.

this was fine - i'm not sure what it was, but i feel like the layout or the production of it or something could've been done better. the subject matter is extremely interesting - and the things he's seen! - but it kinda fell flat for me. i had troubles paying attention the entire film & had to rewind periodically to figure out what was going on when something caught my eye/ears... idk. it wasn't a bad watch & i got plenty out of it, but i was expecting it to be better.

Plodding and dull. It's a great show of journalistic integrity, but that's not really what the film is about. It gets too bogged down documenting the process of making the film rather than actually addressing the subject.

Voyeur is the story of a man who not only spies on the visitors to his motel, but he chronicled everything. He counted sex acts. He counted orgasms. He had to count one death in there, too. It is a study of the relationship between the storyteller and the journalist. It is fascinating and all we have to do is watch.

I could've just read the fucking article in 5 minutes. A bit meh, really.

With his penchant for collecting, one can only be thankful that the extent of his experiences was restricted to observing others instead of collecting them. When the average joe can become a reality 온라인카지노추천 star, and a reality 온라인카지노추천 star can become a president, then it comes as no surprise when the media and the disturbed have become one and the same, and it is a mutual admiration club. We are loooking into a mirror and the monster is us.

It's unique but the execution of this movie Is lacking. A lot of talk but it doesn't go into other details of what happened. Instead it's a back and forth between the reporter and the storyteller.

Not sure how I feel about this. I know one thing. Gay Talese is a solid and patient journalist.

Not sure why both of these guys are not in prison, or at least held on conspiracy charges and required to make bail based on admission. Other than the potential that this is all fake. Whatever, that lame reporter guy is a person nobody has heard of and I suppose wants to make a name for himself, but this film was just painful. Probably wants to be like Burroughs but has zero Interest. Lame. From a documentary standpoint there is zero substance, just non stop interviews with the two guys in their homes with a couple tiny publisher interviews that were clearly uncomfortable and contrary. For a guy that claims to immerse himself for credibility, this was shallow as eff, and seemed like a desperate last resort for an irrelevant career.

Interesting documentatry about a 'pervert' and the pulitzer-winning journalist who told his story, While the starting premise is salacious; it shifts to an in-depth look at the noble profession of journalism. Watch if you're in the mood for a documentary on perversions and/or journalism.

THE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO MAIN PEOPLE IN THIS MOVIE IS PRICELESS. THE MOVIE IT SELF CREEPED ME OUT AND MAKES ME NOT WANT TO BONE IN A HOTEL ANYMORE.

This is not a documentary that’s going to blow you away. I would not watch it again but I did appreciate it. I enjoyed getting to know both of the characters. The main guy who ran the hotel and the guy who is writing the story. From a videographer‘s perspective, I enjoyed watching the editing, the shots they got, and it was really cool when they built the hotel set and showed the owner looking into the fake hotel. So they had a lot going for it. Stylistically I approved. The story kind of dragged on but it also gave me a really good glance into what can happen to you when you publish a story like this and you receive backlash or people hating on you and giving you threats.

When I first read the New Yorker article I was both creeped out and intrigued at how this sort of thing could have happened and for so long. Reading it I even felt kind of like a creep myself, even fourth-hand knowing this information. And yet now, watching this documentary, I realized perhaps it's more of an evolution of voyeurism. Foos watches in private for pleasure, Talese watches for public consumption, and then here we are living vicariously through them both. In general I sort of feel like the modern condition is built around voyeurism. Reality 온라인카지노추천, the internet, anything goes sex and violence, free porn, documentaries about a man who just secretly watched people bone for a decade.... it's almost hard to judge him when he basically just came up with "binge watching" but in real life and decades before it was bought, sold and marketed. Does that still make him a creep? Totally. Does that make us creeps? Yeah dude. Doesn't matter if we're not getting off on it, we're still lapping it up at every turn. Other than that realization this doesn't really offer much in the way of new information. It's fun to watch Gay Talese strut around in those beautiful suits and that immense ego at least. I love his damn house. I also enjoyed the doll house version of this hotel. But it's pretty strictly a talking head real-time doc of how the book happened, which honestly doesn't offer that many twists or turns that aren't eventually undone by the film itself.

we get it. He likes to stare at people and the author wants to exploit it. WOW. Could've told this story in 20 minutes.

Peeping tom. So this is a documentary about real life creep Gerald Foos. He previously owned a motel in his younger days. Little did his guests know that he had modified the building so as to have full visibility to every room through the ventilation system and used it to watch his guests on the nightly. Much like a Bond villain, he can't take his secret to the grave. When he is compelled to reveal his secret, that is where we, the audience, come in. Now I just stumbled upon this while perusing the Netflix library, and it seemed interesting enough. The subject is certainly sordid, and the preview trailer that automatically playing was attention grabbing. As far as documentaries go, this is far from my favorite, but I do suppose that it could have been worse. The one interesting thing that this documentary has going for it is that it is just as much about its subject as it is the person studying him. Acclaimed author Gay Talese is the one that wrote the novel about this guy, and he is prominently featured in the documentary. This isn't just about what went down in this man's hotel, it is also about the article Talese wrote, and the fallout that happened when one of the sources ended up getting discredited. I do believe I may be making this sound more interesting than it actually is. It's not like it is boring, but there is quite frankly not enough material to make a 95 minute feature about. I could see this working as a documentary short that lasts about 30 minutes and doesn't overstay its welcome. As it stands, it starts to repeat itself in fairly short order. So much of this features this doll house, and our subject matter lifting up the roof and peering in for dramatic effect. It's a neat visual... at first. After it gets overused for the fifteenth time they use it, it stops holding your attention. Even though it is dark and interesting, it's never captivating, and the movie that handled sexual deviances way better is Tickled, although it does feels weird comparing a documentary to another documentary. The subject itself is pretty gross and it does skeeve you out, although I did keep getting yanked out of the movie because Gerald Foos sounds exactly like Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski. Voyeur is all right, and it won't make a huge difference one way or the other if you decide to watch or keep on scrolling by it.

Lots to think about.

Excellent doc and very captivating. Loved he style and the way the story unfolded. It was two stories told concurrently - each one playing of the other. Such a fascinating character.

Voyeur is about a journalist named Gay Talese. This is an important distinction. As much as it is also about a man named Gerald Foos, who outfitted an entire motel to be his personal voyeuristic laboratory, it is really about Talese's 30+ year journey reporting and writing about Foos. Kane, Koury, and their entire crew deserve some serious kudos. I can't imagine how much footage they must have shot and how uncomfortable and strange the production of this film must have been. They did an amazing job of capturing and combining raw reactions, cinematic dramatizations, and archival footage into a focused and entertaining tale of two men who are obsessed with their crafts. The reason I gave this doc a 3.5 instead of a 4 is because I am not sure it is for everyone. The content is so challenging, creepy, and uncomfortable that you feel like you want to take a shower after it is over (just make sure you close your air vents first). While it is brilliantly done, it is definitely not a feel good movie with universal appeal. To be clear, that doesn't mean it isn't of the highest quality, it just means I am not sure it is what most people want to spend their precious free time watching.

Creepy and a bit seedy but definitely suspense field and fun.