The Information Warfare of Everyone Portugal, Praia de Luges. Stunning warm place, loved by many residents of the European continent and the British Isles. A wealthy family from the UK in the amount of 5 people goes on vacation with friends. The company rents several villas in the Ocean resort. On May 3, 2007, parents go out for dinner at a nearby restaurant after putting their children to bed. All the adults were "on duty" and checked on the children every 20 to 30 minutes, according to the McCanns. During one of these checks, it turned out that 4-year-old Madellane McCann was missing. No one else saw the girl.
It's a very ugly story. It is disgusting that someone most likely interrupted the baby’s life, but no less disgusting is the fact that the newspapers gladly savored the details of the disappearance, that the whole case became a fight between the special services of the two countries.
The case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is one of the most resonant in the last 20 years. The McCann couple, who initially aroused universal sympathy, gradually turned into outcasts. They are white, well-to-do Britons, and many have wondered: “If a child of poor parents had gone missing, would they have been so actively looking for it?” In my opinion, talk of privilege is superfluous.
The 8-episode film explores not so much the circumstances of the disappearance of a little girl, but how much the axiom that “public opinion is a prostitute.” The British press everywhere pokes noses and muddyes the Portuguese police, the fat police chief openly accuses parents of murder, the McCanns walk around the planet as missions and everywhere carry with them an unpleasant aunt-PR.
7 out of 10