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The Imposter
2012 · Film · documentary · 99 min
Directed by Bart Layton
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
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The Imposter (2012). It almost feels like a spoiler to tell you it's a documentary, the story is so incredibly gripping and the performances so great you get sucked in completely and forget that the lead isn't actually the hero.
> I believe that New York attracts these people, from all over the country.
Not just from the country and not just to NY. From all over the world to wherever there is wealth. There was a famous case of the "Fake Rockefeller" where a german guy duped many into thinking he was a rockefeller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Gerhartsreiter
And if you enjoy lying narcissists, you'll love the documentary "The Imposter". I don't want to spoil it so I won't go into details here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imposter_(2012_film)
It's unbelievable the bald-faced lies that people can come up with. It's also unbelievable the lies people are willing to believe.
if you ever are homeless you could be like the guy from The Imposter (2012 film) and trick a family into believing you are their long lost daughter.
There are some stories where reality surpass fiction. In addition to this, I found the story of Frédéric Bourdin to be hard to beleive yet real. The 2012 documentary The Imposter tells the story in an astounding way: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966604/
This reminds me of a great documentary I watched a few months ago, about this guy named Frédéric Bourdin who managed to impersonate (from a jail cell in Spain) a boy who had gone missing in Texas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imposter_(2012_film)
These guys are creepy, for sure, but also fascinating for their ability to assume new personas at the drop of a hat.
The Imposter - maybe not inspiring but an amazing documentary.