![]() “Teenagers are all over the place,” says her friend. Any hints that all may not have well between them – Lee writes about their breakup: “Apparently you don’t respect me enough to accept my decision” – are not interrogated. The picture that emerges is that age-old one of young lovers, kept apart by their families – in this case, their controlling, traditional, immigrant parents. Lee and Syed are reimagined walking arm in arm through idyllic woodland. Her words are brought to life with dreamy animated sequences. Anyone who kept a diary as a teenager will recognise the heady drama – mortifying, years later – that can be created with the liberal use of exclamation marks and some scribbled hearts. There is something desperately sad about the gulf between the interviews with these grownup, self-aware women and the gauche journal entries of their friend who would never join them. One friend describes her as “goofy” another talks about her passion. If you were gripped by Serial (I was), it’s quite a shock to see Lee on a video clip of a local news item, talking about her lacrosse team, very alive and human, and not just an off-stage player on online forums dedicated to this case.
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