"I am not exaggerating when I say I really felt like I was living in a spy movie," says filmmaker Ryan White of crafting Assassins, the documentary exploring the 2017 murder of Kim Jong-nam — the elder half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un — at the hands of two young women, who insisted they believed they were participating in a prank show and duped into rubbing a lethal chemical weapon in the victim's eyes.
Crucial to Assassins' storytelling is an abundance of revealing closed-circuit television footage casting a penetrating light on the women's claims. "There would have been no film without the CCTV footage, and there definitely would not be a film making a case for their innocence," said White. "We tried everything to get it.".
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