Fascinating for what it unconciously reveals. The filmmaker, like the other dupes, whats to believe that JT LeRoy is something more than a hoax.
So this film is remarkably uncritical. Laura Alpert is taken completely at her own valuation. Like her writing, the film slickly plays on the audiences fantasies and fears.
Laura's infatuation with celebrity seems to be behind a lot of the hoax, but the filmmaker never explores this. He seems to be just another one of her dupes and ignores the issues raised by Laura, accepting them without question. The advantage of this approach is that Laura reveals more of herself than she probably intended. But the film never probes the material.
This is very disturbing, because of blindness of the filmmaker and the subject. They seem to be insight-free, which probably explains why this hoax could be perpetrated to begin with.
So this film is remarkably uncritical. Laura Alpert is taken completely at her own valuation. Like her writing, the film slickly plays on the audiences fantasies and fears.
Laura's infatuation with celebrity seems to be behind a lot of the hoax, but the filmmaker never explores this. He seems to be just another one of her dupes and ignores the issues raised by Laura, accepting them without question. The advantage of this approach is that Laura reveals more of herself than she probably intended. But the film never probes the material.
This is very disturbing, because of blindness of the filmmaker and the subject. They seem to be insight-free, which probably explains why this hoax could be perpetrated to begin with.