A woman who’s a pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true.

On a cold winter's night in 1983, a young teacher of Serbo-Croatian recieves a surprise visit. A nude man, claiming to be from Belgrade in the far future tells her that the world as they know it will crumble and that he believes he knows how to stop it.

A woman who’s a pathological liar wakes up one day to discover her lies have become true. 源自：https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/656ba734e26e17ff759a03f5

In THE PATHOLOGICAL OPTIMIST, director Miranda Bailey brings us a character study of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, one of 13 co-authors of a notorious 1998 paper in the UK medical Journal The Lancet, but who became the very public face of what has come to be known as “The Anti-Vaccination Movement.” An expat from Britain who currently resides in Austin, Texas, Wakefield allowed Bailey and her team to follow him and his family for five years beginning in 2011 as he fought a defamation battle in the courts against the British Medical Journal and journalist Brian Deer. The results of that case – and the self-reflection, pronouncements, and observations of Wakefield, his legal team, wife, and his children – create a complex and incisive look at one of our era’s most fear-provoking and continuingly provocative figures.

这部纪录片通过对受害者家属、目击者和犯罪心理专家进行罕见采访，揭示了乔兰·范德斯洛特长期的暴力模式和病态谎言是如何导致两名年轻女性死亡的新情况。很少有杀手在因一起杀人案出名后还会再次行凶，但在娜塔莉·霍洛威失踪五周年时，乔兰在秘鲁谋杀了 21 岁的斯蒂芬妮·弗洛雷斯。令人痛心的是，他前往秘鲁的费用竟是他从娜塔莉·霍洛威的母亲贝丝那里勒索来的钱，此前他曾虚假承诺有偿透露娜塔莉尸体的位置。2023 年，也就是娜塔莉失踪 18 年后，贝丝·霍洛威终于在法庭上与乔兰对质，乔兰首次承认自己谋杀了她的女儿。他的坦白让娜塔莉的家人获得了长久以来所寻求的些许慰藉，但鉴于乔兰过往欺骗和操纵的历史，一些人对他最新供词中的细节表示怀疑。