{"id":28935,"date":"2024-05-12T09:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/why-the-jinx-owes-its-existence-to-a-bizarre-movie-about-robert-durst\/12\/05\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T09:38:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T13:38:35","slug":"why-the-jinx-owes-its-existence-to-a-bizarre-movie-about-robert-durst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/why-the-jinx-owes-its-existence-to-a-bizarre-movie-about-robert-durst\/12\/05\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018The Jinx\u2019 Owes Its Existence to a Bizarre Movie About Robert Durst"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Certainly true crime stories have been adapted for the screen many times. What\u2019s wild about this one is that Durst himself watched \u201cAll Good Things\u201d and decided that he liked it. After years of refusing to talk to the news media, he contacted Jarecki and said he\u2019d be willing to sit down for interviews. In a very real sense, \u201cAll Good Things\u201d is the reason \u201cThe Jinx\u201d even exists.<\/p>\n

But the strangest part \u2014 I can\u2019t wrap my head around it \u2014 is that Durst offered to record a commentary track<\/a> for the DVD release of \u201cAll Good Things.\u201d On it, he mostly concurs with the order of events, while never admitting outright to the murders. He agrees that a disturbing scene in which Marks grabs Katie\u2019s hair and virtually drags her out of a family party actually happened; he says that one scene, in which Katie flees to a neighbor\u2019s home during a fight, is \u201cmore or less accurate.\u201d His only real quibble is the suggestion that he killed the family dog.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of move calculated to baffle, and the more you try to explain it, the less sense it makes. Was Durst aware of how this looked? Did he have a screw or two loose? Had he simply lived his life in the kind of ultrarich world that can free one from the bounds of time, space and logic? Or did he simply think he was smarter than everyone else and could never really get caught?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Jinx: Part Two\u201d goes a long way toward suggesting those last two questions, combined, provide the answer. After all, five years after \u201cAll Good Things,\u201d he was the star of an HBO documentary series, one he clearly thought would not indict him. He was so wealthy that his friends, whether they liked him or not, were willing to turn a blind eye to whatever they might suspect in order to stay in his good graces. Why wouldn\u2019t you think you were invincible?<\/p>\n

The new show returns us to the \u201cJinx\u201d courtroom scene, too. If you watched a movie about yourself and the crimes you may have committed, and you called up the director and said you\u2019d like to chat, and you recorded a very complimentary commentary track, then a lawyer\u2019s argument that it\u2019s just a story someone made up doesn\u2019t hold as much water. It\u2019s indisputably true that media and entertainment influence the way juries view cases \u2014 that\u2019s just part of a human-based justice system.<\/p>\n

But entertainment doesn\u2019t exist in a parallel dimension. It weaves through society at large, influencing how we view one another and, more important, ourselves. Even if we\u2019re jurors. Even if we\u2019re Robert Durst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Certainly true crime stories have been adapted for the screen many times. What’s wild about this one is that Durst himself watched