It took time, but this ‘catfishing’-style doc eventually reeled me in. Amina, author of the wildly popular titular Syrian blog, disappeared from sight, but not before exchanging heated love letters with Canadian Sophie Deraspe, a fan she’d never met. There are a lot of lonely, desperate people online and hell hath no fury like an anonymous pen pal scorned. It's easy for me to say from a distanced perspective, but this all might have been prevented had the victim-turned-filmmaker (Deraspe) done a little legwork. (It’s a good thing radios weren’t broadcasting news of a Martian invasion.) Nobody likes to fall prey to a practical joke, but no matter how hard Deraspe tries to pin blame for her malaise on the Syrian government, it’s a gullible and foolhardy soul that led her down this rabbit hole to begin with. On the bright side, she turned global humiliation into a revenge doc that’s been getting generally positive reviews. (2015) — Scott Marks
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