fEW made it in early 2019, just like actor and singer Jussie Smollett, who successfully directed Child Stardom as the track to become the hit TV series Empire. Until late January of the same year, news came out that Smollett was attacked outside his downtown Chicago apartment for a possible hate crime. (Smollett is black and gay.) Breakthrough details shared by Smollett early on – specifically, he was jumped by two Maga infantry soldiers who dipped him in bleach before then hanged him around his neck – two uplifting public supporters and Make them cynical. (Really? They shouted, “Is this the Margo Country?” StreetVille? ) Also, the police did not help themselves much by registering their suspicions early and loudly.
Eventually, Smollett, suspected of confronting with the help of two acquaintances, was charged with filing a false police report. When the charges reached an agreement with the county attorney’s office, the provocative cry was reinstructed, convicted of its own framework and sentenced to a five-month county jail. Smollett has been the target of global ridicule, from Dave Chappelle to Charles Barkley. Explaining yourself will only make things worse.
Even though Smollett won a reversal of faith in his appeal in 2024 and insisted on his original story, the idea is that his anger over influence continues to lose his reputation and career. But is his story really that far-fetched? “That's what happened to this case,” said director Gagan Rehill. “It has this gem-like quality that you can turn it in a way and it looks like a thing, depending on your requirements, depending on their experience, depending on who they are and where they are in this case. There is nothing to be sure of.”
Is Rehill's latest movie “The Truth About Jussie Smollett on Netflix? Instead of browsing decades of research on the inherently fragile nature of witness testimony, you can spend at least 90 minutes watching this documentary. The fact is the intentional misname here. The film doesn't find the real perpetrator and it doesn't easily make the audience stand out in Smollett's innocence or innocence. To be sure: this situation is still suitable for the times. “All you have to do is change the news channel and you provide another reality for what’s going on outside your window,” Rehill said. “But in this case, you legally have two competitive narratives.” Together. ”
The film doesn't avoid trying to reach the bottom of what happened to Smollett. In addition to reviewing stocks of police evidence and trial transcripts, the doctor also visited with major players in many cases, including Smollett, including exclusives. When he started sharing his version of the event, this time with CCTV and other files provided additional context, you'll be on the condition of why the man gave up on his luxurious high-rise comfort at 2 a.m. to be brave -3c to provide subway sandwiches. (He just arrived from Los Angeles, the refrigerator was exposed, etc.) Even his claim to be assaulted by two witnesses (a neighbor and a security guard, two strangers to Smollett), recalling two people who saw the description of two fitting outside the Smollett building and proved it in court.
Why isn't this bigger? OK, start Smollett Chicago, Not Los Angeles or New York. On the other hand, the camera only allowed Smollett's post-trial judgment – just in time to let the world watch the judge give him a good finger hand. “The trial needs to be reported in a measured factual way,” Rehill said. Instead, it became an opportunity for over-craving experts to indulge in genetic evidence, crime scene videos and other possible blanks in smoking guns. “I defended my bullshit,” Smollett was upset about the camera at some point. The documentary now does what the trial media should have done at the time: Ask why we should trust the Chicago police. It reminds people that for four years of suspicion in Smollett, the city of Chicago has come under fire for the dashboard footage of an unarmed 17-year-old boy, with police shootings 16 times sparking public outcry and protests.
With the help of investigative journalists Abigail Carr and Chelli Stanley, the film abandoned some of the bombshells – especially videos from the inside of the county jail, which appeared to show the supposed attackers Ola and Abel Osundairo and conspired with police to throw Smollett under the bus. Its idea that fixes exist not only but also come from high places, which makes people believe. (Where else the police could have imagined that Smallert hated himself as the empire’s higher wage leverage, rather than the mayor from the White House, who happened to run one of Hollywood’s largest talent agencies?) Special Attorney Dan Webb explicitly broke away from Smollett’s beliefs compared to the Smollets’ beliefs. It was Note Instrunt the Public the Public nors note nors notes note nors notes note Interne Interne Interne Inters of Spemell’s’ Even now, Eddie Johnson, the former police chief who directed the investigation at the time, called Smollett a “a young man in troubled state”.
Jussie Smollett was in court in March 2022. Photo: Reuters
The public even laughed and Police were when Smallert refused to hand over his cell phone for investigation. In the movie, Smallert not only makes common ground for his privacy. He reveals the real reason for his signing with Osundairo Boys – getting banned herbal supplements in Nigeria that could help him lose weight. Think about it, Semaglutides are only four years away from being widely available. “Every contributor has his own point of view,” Rehill said. “Some people might call it an agenda. But these are bigger than life roles that happen to be saying the opposite. It really makes you think about the nature of truth in society.”
If Smollett can’t be called the perfect victim, the documentary clearly shows that the police are not the perfect villain either. Johnson, a black Chicago native with roots in Jim Crow South, accepted Smollett's lynching proposal. Melissa Staples, the chief detective identified as gay, was also influenced by empathy very early. Rehill trains his camera lens like Loupe, and has a trick to focus on the side of his symbolic gem enough to allow the audience to appreciate the clarity before spinning it enough to expose the flaws. Anyone guessed that left his character behind. Smollett is slowly rebuilding his career, and the Osundairo brothers are reveling in the right-wing reputation, with the main authorities moving forward – many of us still in trouble, however.
“I want to end up leaving the audience, like uncertainty because I can see someone who is not sure. I understand why people are looking at this situation further. We live in a society where trust in building institutions.”