Gay Talese, the legendary journalist and writer (Honor Thy Father for example, about the american maffia, was a masterpiece) follows a man who claims to have been the world`s biggest voyeur.
This man, Gerald Foos, had contacted him with the story that he had bought a motel back in 66 and for decennia had seen this as his laboratory, where he watched guests have arguments, sex and even a murder through a special observation post he had made in the roof.
But soon the viewer is getting points of doubt, and during the documentary, details turn out to be not quite right on how the story had been told to Talese. With the climax that days before the book would come out, a large part of the story is debunked by another journalist, effectively killing the book for good...
But it is never the less a view in the mind of a very, very special man, and his strange behaviour. Well made, it gives you even doubt in the end on who to feel sorry for the most: the Voyeur, or the Journalist, men both coming out heavily damaged in soul and reputation from this venture...
Just don`t go looking at this if you think you get a quick fix of nudity... there isn`t any.
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