The Imposter

*ing : Adam O'Brian, Frédéric Bourdin and Carey Gibson
Director : Bart Layton

Tagline :There are two sides to every lie.

The imposter is a documentary about French man Frédéric Bourdin who is serial imposter. Yes, you read right. He is someone who enjoys stealing identities and derives pleasure out of it. The documentary is about how he acted as imposter to an American family who had lost their 13 year son 3 years ago. He actually convinces the family that he is their lost son. Even though with different appearance and completely different accent. He creates web of lies that he was sexually abused by army personnel , drugged and exported out of country. People actually start believing him and it becomes a high profile case and he gets lot of media attention of it. But there is something wrong with the family which accepted him as his son. Inspite of obvious scenario that he is NOT their lost son, they continue treat him like one. Its more than wat meets the eye. It is hinted that the family actually killed the original guy and it doesn’t get revealed so that they accept him. The film is narrated by the culprit Frédéric Bourdin himself. He ofcourse later gets detained and sent back to his own country but his claims remains inconclusive that the family may have killed their atual son. Its told in a thriller style and is creepy at times too..

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