Late in Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, directing partners Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin are on the road, discussing the latest twist in a five-year storytelling journey that eventually became a seven-episode Netflix series. "It was sorta funny when we started," Chaiklin remarks. "But it's gotten really dark." It's an observation that many viewers will share as they make their way through Tiger King, which uses one of my favorite documentary structures: The filmmakers begin in one place and are forced by events to make an entirely different film from the one they intended.
It's an approach that can generate an almost spontaneous vitality, with every cliffhanger feeling like it's being experienced by director and audience alike..
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