This simply astounding documentary offers proof positive that real life can and does on occasion best the wildest and most imaginative of fiction, for it tells the sordidly compelling story of sleazy'n'smarmy shameless narcissistic ambulance-chasing lawyer creep Burt Pugach, who falls madly and obsessively in love (sort of) with lovely young Linda Riss. When Burt fails to win Linda over through conventional means, he hires some thugs to blind and disfigure her with lye so no one else can have her. Things take a turn for the seriously bizarre when Linda decides to marry Burt after he gets released from prison after serving only fourteen years of a thirty year sentence. And the insane true-life story doesn't even end with that.
This documentary captures with bracing acuity the brutal and drastic measures some people will resort to in order to get something that they desperately want. It also reveals that how easily the fine line between love and obsession can be thoroughly blurred and even erased, with Burt's infatuation with Linda coming across as all kinds of psychotic and unhinged. Linda's reasons for hooking up with Burt are done partially out of necessity -- she's blind and unable to work -- and perhaps partly as a means of getting back at him for what he did to her, as she in the long run transforms into a complete nagging shrew who's always busting Burt's hump. Crazy love indeed.
This documentary captures with bracing acuity the brutal and drastic measures some people will resort to in order to get something that they desperately want. It also reveals that how easily the fine line between love and obsession can be thoroughly blurred and even erased, with Burt's infatuation with Linda coming across as all kinds of psychotic and unhinged. Linda's reasons for hooking up with Burt are done partially out of necessity -- she's blind and unable to work -- and perhaps partly as a means of getting back at him for what he did to her, as she in the long run transforms into a complete nagging shrew who's always busting Burt's hump. Crazy love indeed.