Great article with plenty of movie recommendations.
My favorite scam movies also have a touch of noir. I think “The Grifters” is one of the best movies ever made where everybody is scamming everybody else. And “The Best Offer” starring Geoffrey Rush is not well known but it’s a classy movie about an arrogant art dealer being taken for a ride.
I can only hope Hollywood, the BBC, whoever, keep producing movies of that quality and not a bunch of woke nonsense.
“I can only hope Hollywood, the BBC, whoever, keep producing movies of that quality and not a bunch of woke nonsense.”
Fat chance. But have an upvote for the noble sentiment.
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Robert Quark
2 years ago
Great article by Dorian as always, although curiously (in my view) he leaves out another popular Netflix show from this year telling the story about a scammer in the UK, The Puppet Master. This show very much centred on the story of his victims rather than the scammer, but also told a fascinating yet wholly unglamorous story. I was left apoplectic by the ending, if that’s any recommendation.
ralph bell
2 years ago
A truly awful crime which the Police do almost nothing to catch the perpetrators. It get <5% of the Police budget although it account for >40% of all UK crime!!!
Dapple Grey
2 years ago
‘The Bahamian workers who got stiffed received far less attention in a story that became the Coachella of schadenfreude, the Instagram Altamont’.
I believe that viewers of the docudrama donated to a crowdfunder for the woman in charge of catering who used her own money to pay the workers and she came out with a good profit – so that was one happy ending in the whole unhappy saga.
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Steven Somsen
2 years ago
The con man offers a service to the ‘victim’: a lesson he/she would have never learned without him/her. Costly, yes, but invaluable
Not just costly, life-ruining in some cases. The only two people that I have known to have fallen for these things was a widowed mother on slender means and an elderly man with dementia; so, no sympathy or admiration for any of the parasites that do this.
I have had dealings with conmen. They do seem invariably to be very talented and could easily a good living. However, there seems to be something almost genetic that compels them not only to cheat people but then rub their victims noses in it in the process.
No sympathy nor admiration from my side either. On the contrary. But neither are there helpless victims, not worthy for what they have been calling forth. That would make it another meaningless experience for them.
Great article with plenty of movie recommendations.
My favorite scam movies also have a touch of noir. I think “The Grifters” is one of the best movies ever made where everybody is scamming everybody else. And “The Best Offer” starring Geoffrey Rush is not well known but it’s a classy movie about an arrogant art dealer being taken for a ride.
I can only hope Hollywood, the BBC, whoever, keep producing movies of that quality and not a bunch of woke nonsense.
I recommend to you the Netflix show Sneaky Pete.
“I can only hope Hollywood, the BBC, whoever, keep producing movies of that quality and not a bunch of woke nonsense.”
Fat chance. But have an upvote for the noble sentiment.
Great article by Dorian as always, although curiously (in my view) he leaves out another popular Netflix show from this year telling the story about a scammer in the UK, The Puppet Master. This show very much centred on the story of his victims rather than the scammer, but also told a fascinating yet wholly unglamorous story. I was left apoplectic by the ending, if that’s any recommendation.
A truly awful crime which the Police do almost nothing to catch the perpetrators. It get <5% of the Police budget although it account for >40% of all UK crime!!!
‘The Bahamian workers who got stiffed received far less attention in a story that became the Coachella of schadenfreude, the Instagram Altamont’.
I believe that viewers of the docudrama donated to a crowdfunder for the woman in charge of catering who used her own money to pay the workers and she came out with a good profit – so that was one happy ending in the whole unhappy saga.
The con man offers a service to the ‘victim’: a lesson he/she would have never learned without him/her. Costly, yes, but invaluable
Not just costly, life-ruining in some cases. The only two people that I have known to have fallen for these things was a widowed mother on slender means and an elderly man with dementia; so, no sympathy or admiration for any of the parasites that do this.
I have had dealings with conmen. They do seem invariably to be very talented and could easily a good living. However, there seems to be something almost genetic that compels them not only to cheat people but then rub their victims noses in it in the process.
No sympathy nor admiration from my side either. On the contrary. But neither are there helpless victims, not worthy for what they have been calling forth. That would make it another meaningless experience for them.
No sympathy nor admiration from my side either but still they provide lessons fro those who have not yet learnt them
My Chief of Staff is addicted to ‘Bridgerton’ is there any cure?
No he’s a lost cause.
Alas I thought as much!