Out of Thin Air

While the way it was presented is perfectly functional but nothing exceptional, the story itself did its job.

The story is quite something and needs to be seen or at least read about.

As for the film documentary itself, it is perfectly coherent but not exceptional. However, it left me frustrated as there was never any conclusion.

But like I said, the story is unbelievable enough to check out.

I can see how this story is interesting, but I just don't think it was interestingly told. I found it wanted to say much and used up a lot of space and time but in the end it gave me no solid clues why I should think they were guilty or not. I thought it just did a lot of talk over nothing instead of focusing on the story and the details. I also found it a bit one-sided as we were able to almost only see or hear Erla's story.

What I also wanted out of this is to kind of delve into what might have happened to the missing persons, the theories surrounding that and a bit more talk about the 'victims' so that we can maybe make our own theories about what might have happened to them.

I don't know. To me it's really bland - stylistically, the way the story was unraveled, the main character of this story (or who the focus was on)...

Just not my cup of tea. :)

Iceland is a place everyone knows everybody. Back in the 70's there was a population of just 200k so when two men vanished over a space of several months there was massive pressure on the police to find the culprits. Six suspects were arrested and confessed to the murders and Iceland breathed easy again. The trouble is , despite their convictions , the six weren't sure if they were guilty or not. This is a fascinating documentary about how the human mind works if manipulated or mentally tortured. It's very sad in parts because lives were completely ruined but as documentaries go this is well worth watching. It's available on Netflix and BBCi player.

Leaves you having more questions and all the story there is not clear.

Not one of the best true crime documentaries I've seen. This one could easily have been an hour and feels very padded at an hour and a half. I've never liked reconstructions and they doesn't add anything here either. The story starts out interesting and goes for the psychological angle, which is fine, but as an open-ended case we learn very little by the end about what actually happened.