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The story is exhaustive and often sickening, its scope recalling the examinations Gibney and his team have given in the past to Enron, to Scientology and, most recently, to the Trump administration s response to COVID-19. “The Crime of the Century” will be shown Monday and Tuesday.
“I felt that the whole idea of the crisis was being treated as if it were a spontaneous event that just couldn t have been helped,” Gibney said. “What was missing was the element of crime, in particular the sort of broad, over-arching conspiracy.”
If you put everything together, “it s almost like a murder mystery,” he said. “In some way, it is a murder mystery.”
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
NEW YORK (AP) â Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO s two-part documentary âThe Crime of the Centuryâ opens with a body bag.
It contained a man from San Diego â his remains carried away in the predawn hours after overdosing on fentanyl â one of nearly a half million Americans to die from opioid abuse since 2001.
Filmmaker Alex Gibney quickly widens the lens, however, for an explanation of how the drugs that caused the crisis came to be, how companies aggressively promoted and distributed them and how the government failed to act swiftly and effectively to save lives.
The story is exhaustive and often sickening, its scope recalling the examinations Gibney and his team have given in the past to Enron, to Scientology and, most recently, to the Trump administration s response to COVID-19. “The Crime of the Century” will be shown Monday and Tuesday.
“I felt that the whole idea of the crisis was being treated as if it were a spontaneous event that just couldn t have been helped,” Gibney said. “What was missing was the element of crime, in particular the sort of broad, over-arching conspiracy.”
If you put everything together, “it s almost like a murder mystery,” he said. “In some way, it is a murder mystery.”
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