In the words of Network's Max Schumacher, "there's some real, actual life going on here." We may say that Holmes *deserves* to be treated like a fictional character, but, [SPOILER] I think that merely habituates us to treating the more consequential things as yet more fiction.

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This is not quite the same as that, but treating the film's "revelations" as spoilers rather than news items (which should, rightly, be in the lede of any review or analysis) is infuriating. This desire to turn everything into entertainment is no small part of why we are where we are.

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Think of how pissed off you rightly get when some Beltway journalist reveals that Donald Trump nuked the Moon or something in one of their *exclusive tell-all* books, that they're only just now teasing in The Atlantic instead of publishing as a breaking news story when it might've made a difference.

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It is, in fact newsworthy that Holmes' boyfriend demanded and in fact received a contract from A24 that guaranteed him payment for participating in the documentary. He eventually dropped the contract, but don't you think you should know this before going into the theatre?

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But if we are talking about rich and powerful people convicted of fraud, even if they are not sympathetic people, they are *real* people and their *crimes* are real. Whatever Fielder and Seyfried (oops) uncover and divulge is newsworthy and relevant to debates about how to handle criminal elites.

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