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Devilish Details
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Devilish Details

2013 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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The murder of Dutch volleyball player Ingrid Visser in Spain becomes a test case for how far crime reporting can go. Spanish tabloids and local papers publish graphic, sometimes lurid details of the killing almost as fast as police investigators uncover them, and the film asks how those details got out so quickly. Reporters, editors, and police sources appear on camera describing the working relationships that make such leaks possible, from off-the-record briefings to competitive pressure between rival outlets chasing the same story. The film treats the Visser case less as a whodunit and more as a window into a system: what happens when journalists depend on police for access and police depend on journalists for public pressure. It weighs the public's appetite for grisly specifics against the privacy of victims and the integrity of an ongoing investigation, without settling the argument for the viewer. The result is a compact look at the ethics of crime journalism, built around one case that made the tension impossible to ignore.