In fact, she had filmed an interview with him just 15 minutes before the award-winning journalist stepped onto his submarine. Back in 2017, Emma Sullivan, an Australian woman living in Denmark, was making a documentary in which Kim Wall’s soon-to-be-killer featured.
Not that they will always get it right, of course.
Getting it right isn’t easy, but that doesn’t mean filmmakers shouldn’t be allowed to try. Each attempt needs to be judged on its own merits and assessed on both its intentions and its outcomes. You can’t simply rule some subjects off-limits. In my view, you can’t simply cry “too soon” after all, the events of The Investigation are clearly still raw for many (though admittedly they are of a different order of shock to a mass attack). We’ve seen such charges levelled recently against They Are Us, the proposed film from New Zealand-born writer-director Andrew Niccol about the Christchurch massacre, and also at Nitram, Justin Kurzel’s film about the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. It’s fraught territory, with filmmakers contending with claims that telling these tales only retraumatise the victims/survivors and their loved ones. All we need to know about him is what he did, and that he was narcissistic enough to imagine he would get away with it. He is, as far as the show is concerned and in line with a push from victims’ rights groups around the world, not worth dignifying with a name. He gave three wildly conflicting versions of his story, changing it each time the investigators turned up new evidence, starting with Kim’s torso and ending, months later, with the rest of her dismembered body. It does not show him, give a lot of biographical detail, or even offer much from his testimony – perhaps because it is not worth much. Pointedly, The Investigation never mentions the killer by name.
The job is his life, the task of bringing closure to Kim’s parents, Ingrid (Pernilla August) and Joachim (Rolf Lassgard), is his mission. He is an inscrutable figure, giving almost nothing of himself away. The central player though is not the killer, it is Jens Moller (Soren Malling), Copenhagen’s (now-retired) head of homicide.
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