![]() There's a piece of the last episode where I consider that we, it's actually kind of implored, but where I consider if I were the police's main suspect. If you start at what you think happened, it's really easy to fill in dots. One, I think that, just like I was saying, it's a very human need to fill in dots. "There's two things that I think about with that. Madison presents his story with a very level head, something that doesn't seem easy with the level of information he uncovers along the way and some members of his family viewed others with suspicion and a level of distrust resulting from the unknown.ĭespite his youth, Madison never jumps to conclusions and treats every family member with kindness and compassion. And I think for them, too, being able to see this and see the story from all of these different perspectives in one place is a unifying experience. Because a part of everyone regrets the way my mom died, and losing touch with her and me and my family. "So I think that my goal was to exonerate people and bring people together. Because the other part of this is that our grieving process has been stunted or in limbo because we don't know exactly what we're grieving. "So I think there's this very just human need to loop tie. Your world becomes much less safe, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it from happening to you. "Because when someone dies or something terrible happens in your life, you don't know why it happens. ![]() And some of my family members, it's really hard for them to do that 100% because I think that it's a very human thing to want answers for something. You're supposed to love them unconditionally. "And obviously, with something unresolved, an unsolved murder, your family is supposed to be. And then in the long run, we all want the same thing. I think that my family was really empathetic towards my loss and wanted to help me. "I don't think in the very beginning, anyone expected this to be on national television, let alone HBO. But getting them on board wasn't as difficult as it might sound because they all cared greatly for Barbara. They confront some long-held secrets and share with Madison thoughts on those and who they believe might have been responsible for his mother's death. We submitted a trailer, and my professor basically said, 'I'll give you an A if you promise never to stop working on this.'"ĭocumenting his mother's life and his journey of discovery required him to speak in depth with his family. ![]() And we didn't submit a short film, which is what we were supposed to do for the end of documentary class. I just knew that I didn't want to lose her, and this was an opportunity to immortalize that. "I guess when we set out, I was a sophomore in film school, I didn't really know what I was doing. And so as a part of my grieving process, coming to understand who she was and, in turn, my own identity became really addictive." And it's almost like I was grieving someone I didn't know. ![]() She was Barbara and had all of these complexities and conflicts that she was struggling with. "So when I started doing these interviews as a part of a documentary class, I started discovering that my mom wasn't just the superhero that she was when I was growing up. Because when she died, I was very scared of losing her voice, losing her face," Madison said. And with time working against me, I just was almost obsessive. "I think, at first, the part of the process that I got almost addicted to was discovering who my mother was.
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