American Animals (2018)

First: the way in which this story was told is like nothing I've ever seen before. There's the movie with actors portraying the real-life people. Then there are documentary-type "talking head" segments. But there are also some integrations of the two, for example: at one point, when memories of an event differed, one real person winds up in the scene agreeing to just "go with" the other guy's recollection of what happened. It was incredibly innovative and weirdly effective.

And, yes, it's about a crime perpetrated by 4 college kids. But, really, it's about planning a crime and the excitement of a shared project. I understood how it'd be so difficult to let that adrenaline subside and go back to real life. I got why one of the four involved said that he went along with it because the friendship was that important to him. It's like childhood shared fantasy play times came to life -- I'm not sure it was worth 7+ years in prison, but wow. It would've been hard to pass up the experience.

B+