Dead
Man's Line 6/10
I
found this crazy ass documentary that came out last year called Dead Man's Line. This is about a hostage situation that happened in
Indianapolis in February of 1977. Tony Kiritsis took Richard Hall
hostage for 63 hours. Since this took place in '77 there are cameras
and audio of everything that went down. Kiritsis was upset because he
was falling behind on payments on real estate and thought that Hall
and his father wanted the property for themselves. He attached a wire
around Hall's neck connected to a shotgun pressed to the back of his
head and if he were killed the gun would go off. I shit you not, I
have never heard of this incident ever in my life or heard someone as
high on themselves as Kiritsis was. I am shocked that he never spread
his arms and declared himself a god among men. While holding Hall
hostage he also wired his place to explode. It also turned out that
he did this same gun technique on his own sister a few years prior.
How was this guy free?!
I
liked that they had the police involved in this as it happened. They
had different points of view from the mayor at the time, police, and
the media who fucked up so many times by announcing how police were
gonna take down Kiritsis knowing good and damn well that he was
watching the TV like a hawk. If this happened today it would be
broadcast on an app. Just when I thought this situation was over this
son of a bitch just could not stop rambling. While I enjoyed this and
all its nutty glory it felt way too long. I know they had access to a
lot of footage and it started to feel like they were gonna use all of
it. This could have been a three part thing to give more space to the
people involved. The stuff about Kiritsis' life felt shoehorned in. I
don't know shit about Hall and he was the one with a shotgun to his
skull for days. The way this all wrapped up made me ask “The
fuck...?” out loud. Check it out on Amazon if you feel like it.
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