Not long ago I posted a story about an upcoming documentary called “Unknown White Male” that to me just looked fantastic. The basic idea is that it follows the story of a man who just woke up one day on a subway with totally ZERO memory. None. He could speak, and that was about it. Nothing about his life, culture, anything.
However, there are some rumblings going around that some people suspect the guy in the documentary is just faking the whole thing. That it’s all just some big scam. Even MSNBC is running with a story about it that reads something like this:
If Bruce’s story is a hoax, it is so finely constructed and executed that in some perverse way it deserves a round of applause. Think about it. In the span of days, he may well have devised a cost-free way to upgrade his life, from anonymous student to legendary curiosity.
According to friends, Bruce’s life pre-amnesia was hardly miserable, but he was trolling for dates on the Internet and communing with a crowd far less glamorous than the one he wound up in.
The thing that bothers me about these stories floating around is that none of them are based on fact… just suspicion. No one has any proof that the guy is faking it. As a matter of fact everyone who is close to this guy at all and knew him before he lost him memory is 100% standing behind him and saying this is all real. But the way the media outlets are reporting it, they make it sound like there is some sort of “smoking gun” suggesting he’s a con artist. There isn’t. There is nothing behind the doubt except doubt itself.
Could this all be an elaborate hoax? Yes, it is within the realm of possibility, and there’s nothing wrong with having that opinion. However, I just wish they would report it as just that… OPINION instead of making it look like fact and maybe ruining this guy’s life when there is nothing proving he’s done anything wrong. Just my two cents worth.
You can see the Unknown White Male trailer here.
