Nanfu Wang's intriguing new true-crime series MindOverMurder challenges the genre by delving into the worst parts of our world.
The newest HBO true crime docuseries of the many such works on the platform, Mind Over Murder, is a story that stands apart from all that has come before it. This is because series director Nanfu Wang, whose prior documentary work is also all worth checking out, sets out to challenge the conventions of the genre. Even as someone who is quite fascinated with said genre and the stories to be found within it, it has been long overdue for a more critical eye.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY This is felt early on in Mind Over Murder as Wang begins to recount the story of a gruesome murder in the small town of Beatrice, Nebraska that went unsolved for years. Long, sweeping shots of the town as well as the surrounding area show just quiet and simultaneously isolated everything we see can be. We begin to observe how Wang is not just interested in the crime itself, but in the broader societal forces that surround it.
While true crime looks at the worst parts of existence, it also has a persistent and pervasive investment in giving us a hero to feel safe in rooting for. We want to see how the intrepid investigators doggedly pursue all loose ends when everyone else has given up. When we first meet Searcey, he seems to fit this role. This leads us to think that he will be the one that we follow as he tracks down the truth. Only, the truth is not so simple.
This more complex understanding of the murky morality of our world and the way Wang brings it to life makes the case for a more honest type of true crime that doesn't provide easy answers when there are none to be found. It reveals a glimpse of a truth that is painful to confront though no less necessary to do so. This is done in a multitude of subtle ways that shows how the series is sowing the seeds of deeper ideas.
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