Netflix has brought out another true crime documentary that has an interesting, intriguing and twisted personality. It tells the story of a 24-year-old Canadian who became a sensation in February 2013. This documentary film runs for approximately one hour and twenty-five minutes.
The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker is about a man named Kai Lawrence, a nomad, who became an overnight internet sensation in the year 2013 for saving a woman's life. When he was at his peak of popularity among Internet users, he was accused of murdering a 73-year-old man named Joseph Galpfy, a New Jersey attorney.
Director: Colette Camden
Stars: Alex Aguirre, Stephen Colbert, Bob Ellenport
Kai Lawrence was an unknown drifter who led a carefree life. One day everything changed for him when he rescued a woman who was being suffocated by a man in the street. Kai hit the man over the head with an axe. Shortly after the incident, a KMPH news reporter interviewed him and got the details about the incident. But the reporter noted that Kai refused to be interviewed by other reporters and KMPH ended up having an exclusive connection with Kai. Becoming an overnight sensation, Kai began receiving calls from production houses to do shows with him, news outlets to cover his story, and even a call from Justin Bieber's team for a collaboration.
Everyone was busy idolizing Kai without knowing who he was. No one knew the personality of him, but everyone who had spent a great deal of time could tell that he was a mysterious person. No one could guess what his next move would be and this made people more intrigued by him.
The tables were turned when he was charged with murder which he was trying to prove entirely as an act of self-defense. When it all seemed like pure murder to the interrogators, Kai painted different images of the event. When everyone thought that the story of the 24-year-old sensation ended with the woman's rescue, it escalated further, and the hero of him became a cold-blooded murderer.
There are interviews from reporters, people from the production companies who contacted Kai, and also his relatives who gather his knowledge about him and try to give us an idea of what kind of person he was. While others found him weird and intriguing, his cousin believed that he was probably not mentally stable.
The documentary is an interesting watch as it tries to go over the incidents that happened years ago and also gives us some unknown sides of him as well as being an internet sensation. The documentary covers Kai's childhood and also his life after he became popular. This documentary film also conveys the message that the internet just glorifies each and everyone without really knowing them. Overall the documentary is a good watch, the story is interesting and Kai is interesting, this documentary would be perfect for anyone who wants something different.
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