Spoiler
The movie is way more fun if you identify with Seyfried because the second half…is a detective movie! One about a plucky and talented outsider whose enthusiasm to unravel a mystery, and whose conflicted sympathy for a dominated woman who may be a femme fatale, gets her sucked into the deep end with a more experienced older detective, with her arc ending in a disillusioned coldness towards her partner/mentor as she realizes he is compromised and that she has been used. A classic kind of story. Whether or not Seyfried is playing ‘Seyfried’ is secondary for me next to how this documentary shifts into a genre thriller without telling you. And like any genre thriller, the thing is more pleasurable if you don’t watch it clinically but get right in there with the POV character.