Netflix’s Cecil hotel documentary revisits Elisa Lam’s mysterious case

[milotic2]

Facebook post"I have arrived in Laland [sic] and there is a monstrosity of a building next to the place I'm staying," Elisa Lam wrote in January 2013. "When I say monstrosity, mind you, I'm saying as in gaudy. But then again, it was built in 1928, hence the art-deco theme. So yes, it IS classy, but then since it's LA, it went on crack

Comments

[mayjailer]

let this woman rest ffs

[just444]

i watched the first two eps and it feels pretty disrespectful

[solsty]

I agree, I stopped watching when they showed her parents.

[nichcola]

I liked the series overall, but all the internet detectives really made me angry. The arrogance and entitlement they all displayed about how they somehow knew more than actual detectives, coroners etc was infuriating, to say nothing of how scary it was at how little it took them to declare themselves judge and jury when they decided she had been murdered and that it was some rando musician that did it. Like, they hounded him so much he contemplated suicide and no one apologized or reached out to him once they announced her cause of death. The film makers should have come down on them hard and made it very clear how bullshit it was for them to do what they did.

Additionally it was insanely hurtful and disrespectful to her family that they dragged the whole thing out so publicly while they were just trying to grieve.

[lightsgowild]

ia and a bunch of them going to the cecil afterwards to make videos was really gross.

[nichcola]

God, that made me so mad. I just wanted to scream "this is someone's actual life! Stop giggling like you're auditioning for an episode of Ghost Adventures".

[littlebones]

"i read the coroner's report and i disagree with it" k well he's a professional and you make youtube videos in your living room so.

[lightsgowild]

i felt really bad for that morbid guy. the way all those web sleuths went after him when he didn't have anything to do with it.

[fanmail]

i’m currently watching this and it’s not good at all tbh. if they HAD to do a documentary on her, i would have loved to have met her loved ones and gotten to know her better bc she seemed like a delight. i completely understand why her loved ones may not have wanted to participate though, but now we’re left with a bunch of conspiracy theorists who are more willing to believe that elisa was killed by the government than believe she had bipolar disorder.

when this case first picked up steam online i was younger and hadn’t been diagnosed w bipolar yet. now that i’m older and understand my mental illness more and how scary it can be, i find the hysteria surrounding elisa to be incredibly disrespectful. i really just want people to let her and her loved ones rest.

edit: and i want to add the web sleuths featured don’t even seem to treat elisa as an actual human being who tragically died. they treat this as if it’s a game where they’re racing to be the first to win. it’s just gross.