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TED BUNDY,A IRRESISTÍVEL FACE DO
MAL (EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE, USA, 2019) - The narrative feature from veteran
documentarian Joe Berlinger seems as though it’s setting out to be the story of
serial killer Ted Bundy told through the eyes of his girlfriend, Liz Kloepfer
(Lily Collins.) It’s a good premise, and an interesting idea to delve into the
“charming sociopath” profile that Bundy exemplified through the eyes of the
person who was perhaps most charmed. But Berlinger’s film gets sucked into the
gravity of sensational events that are already a matter of public record, and
spends so much time meticulously recreating them that the perspective is
diluted. It is not long before the film seems to lose any perspective at all. His film attempts to reframe Bundy’s
story through the perspective of Elizabeth Kloepfer, a single mother who
remained his girlfriend well into his incarceration in 1976. In Berlinger’s
film, she’s renamed Liz Kendall, as she calls herself in the autobiography that
Michael Werwie’s screenplay takes its basis from. As played by Lily Collins,
Liz allows us to explore the lingering mystery of Bundy: how could a man who
seemed so normal to the outside world be capable of such depravity? It’s an
interesting approach that offsets many of the complaints that our true-crime obsessions
risk disregarding the victims. Liz may have been spared, but she knew too well
what a destructive force he was in the world.
