So we're not allowed to talk about it now?

Oh sure we can, it's just not official until tomorrow.

(Watching now, and I forgot how sucky the reenactments are.)

I think this movie has a simple theme: sociopaths, however superficially charming they may be, are dangerous and evil. The film allows its audience to realize incrementally that the main character, Frederic Bourdin, is a monster. The gradual unmasking of a sociopath is its strongest point. Like all good documentaries, the film allows the villain to tell his own story and reveal more than he intended.

Charlie Parker, as the man who noticed that the emperor had no clothes, was a high point of the film. I also liked the forensic psychologist, who knew in ten friggin' minutes what the US embassy and FBI couldn't figure out over the course of months. You don't "forget" the phonemes of your youth. Actually, maybe this is real theme of the movie!!

By the way, the sociopath in question has an active Twitter feed, francparler.