I first heard about this incident from a friend of mine whose dad had his graduate thesis work in computer science thrown out the window of this ninth floor. He was bitter about it for years, and I sent his son the Youtube link to this doc in hopes that maybe his bitterness might dissipate in the light of these searing testimonials. I'm not so sure.
It's a spookily aesthetic doc, with some hard-to-forget images working hard as metaphor. The story suffers somewhat from the artistic insistence, but not fatally: it's still very clear what instigated the incident, what accelerated it and what it birthed. It's tempting to see it as a stain on Canada's reputation, but it's certainly quite…