MH370: The Plane That Disappeared

MH370 is a documentary that gives unnecessary space to people who don’t deserve it, because they are obvious attention whores and dubious manipulators. It’s nice that, after coming up with two utterly absurd hypotheses based on pure fabrications and technical inaccuracies, it allows the voices of sceptics to be heard, but there is a bit of twisted logic in letting the manipulators make stuff up and then have a few rational voices say that their speculations are contrary to the facts and aren’t even worth addressing. In fact, we learn nothing more than we would get from a single hour of the much more modest and better structured Air Crash Investigation. The voices of the actual investors, who were not involved in the documentary, are replaced by internet enthusiasts and experts who took part in this purely as a leisure activity. The documentary just repeats familiar revelations, complete with a series of annoying wild goose chases and muddled accusations about who is whose agent. Plus the emotional porn of devastated families who, in their desperate longing for answers, sometimes fall under the spell of people who know how to exploit the misfortune of others. (03/08/2023)