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  • That cell phone footage... Can you imagine what it would feel like walking alone in the middle of the night, and suddenly seeing your own corpse, detailing your very own gruesome demise, walking towards you.
  • Poor Alice... not only does she have so many horrible problems she keeps hidden, they're so severe that they actually prevent her from moving on to the afterlife. At the end, her family moves on with their lives, but it's implied that Alice remains stuck - her family just can't feel her anymore.
  • The Reveal that the couple Alice had been babysitting for had been molesting her in the weeks before she died (and depending on your interpretation, the assaults may have directly played a part in her death by wearing her down mentally and making her borderline suicidal). What’s even worse is that the couple are able to get away unscathed despite the encounter having been taped and them being caught trying to destroy said tape, with all that’s done to try and bring them to justice being a police investigation that ultimately hits a dead end.
  • Also if you buy the Fanon theory that Matthew killed Alice then the entire documentary becomes much darker. Because it means we the audience, like Alice, have just watched her murderer get away with it.

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