What would you do if you were scammed out of 6 million dollars? Would you go to extreme measures to get it back? Nick Djokich did, and now is serving 20 years in prison.Another W5 story from Victor Malarek but unlike his last produced piece where there's was only two sides, this story had four sides, making it a four part story.
The first and second parts were character building stories.
The first part focused on the crime that Nick was conspiring to hire a hitman to take out the men who scammed him which makes the viewer perceive him as dangerous.
The second part focused on his family and the community-helping, family-loving individual who believe that Nick is not dangerous at all and the pain of the injustice that Nick and his family got for being scammed. This part mades the viewer more sympathetic.
The third and fourth parts were pure investigation to figure out who was really to blame.
In the third part, Victor finishes where Nick left off and continued the investigation, by traveling to Nassau and interviewing the lawyer in Nassau, and trying to get a hold of two other men that were kidnapped.
Finally, the last part is question the RCMP involvement, or lack of.
Overall, this is one thought out story. W5 tends to use alot of reinactments to fill in the time gaps, but fortunately for Victor, most of the people whom he interviewed were cooperative which didn't require the production of many reinactments shots.
This story really gets to the viewer by asking the viewer if you were in Nick's situation, how would you handle it? Personally, I too would go vigilante if I'm conned 6 million and if my own country's justice system fails to protect me.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/WFive/20110217/w5-nick-djokich-vigilantism-110219/
Only one entry here (out of three). You are focussing too much on what the piece was about. Review it more, based on forming an opinion about the piece.
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