Should you watch So Help Me God?
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So Help Me God
Documentary · 2018
Some 20 years ago, two sex workers were murdered in an upper-class Brussels neighborhood. Celebrated Belgian magistrate Anne Gurwez decides to revisit this cold case, pouring over the evidence with the use of new technologies and tracking down then-suspects.
The sides of So Help Me God
- A Brussels investigating judge at work
- A cold case of two murdered women
- Suspects and witnesses in her office
So Help Me God is good for you if…
- you like a cold case reopened twenty years later, with the evidence and suspects back on the table.
- you want to see real criminal justice from the judge's side of the desk.
- you like an outspoken, unpredictable woman at the center of it.
So Help Me God is bad for you if…
- you won't read subtitles for a Belgian documentary shot in French.
- you can't take real murders, real victims and an exhumation on screen.
About: justice · the ordinary and the monstrous · truth
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