Fascinating subject and great cinematography, etc. However, it didn't present the sound arguments as clearly as the 411 book series did. What I have garnered from reading 2 of the Western 411 books, there is a shocking pattern of disappearances not only of innocent children, but also of adults. There is a scary mystery about the missing kids in that they often disappear while in close distance to their parents, and then if and when they are found they are shockingly far from where they were lost. No lost toddler is going to climb uphill through terrain - they're going to walk downhill or nearby where they are lost. Should be a slam dunk to find them. But nope. The 411 kids are found (if at all) horrifying distances from where any sane person would expect a lost tot to wander. Add to that, certain National Parks that are actual focal points of lots of kids (and adults) disappearing in the region, through the years, over and over again. WTF? The only point I think that was clearly made is that either the U.S. Dept of the Interior doesn't give a rat's tush enough to keep records or they just want to ignore the missing, rather than admit there is something rotten in Yosemite, Crater Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, etc. THAT attitude from an organization most people think of as kind and helpful is unsettling.
I don't think the movie really made all of the other similarities in the cases as clear - or even as frightening - as did the books. Also, the move ignored (one horror at a time, thank you very much) didn't cover missing adults at all. I'm hoping this was only the first movie to be made and the following movie(s) will lay out the overall patterns that initially blew Paulides' mind enough to cause him to write the 411 series. Please Paulides, a second movie, in which you lay out your frightening cases and the quirky/scary stuff that links them together. Use graphs, ven diagrams and numbers and whatever - we can take it. And keep in mind that while the kiddie cases are cause for immediate sympathy, the disappearance of able bodied adults that KNOW what the hell they are doing in the wilderness is far scarier than a wandering 2 year old innocent. Thank you for the efforts. I'd crowd fund your movie efforts again in a hot minute.
I don't think the movie really made all of the other similarities in the cases as clear - or even as frightening - as did the books. Also, the move ignored (one horror at a time, thank you very much) didn't cover missing adults at all. I'm hoping this was only the first movie to be made and the following movie(s) will lay out the overall patterns that initially blew Paulides' mind enough to cause him to write the 411 series. Please Paulides, a second movie, in which you lay out your frightening cases and the quirky/scary stuff that links them together. Use graphs, ven diagrams and numbers and whatever - we can take it. And keep in mind that while the kiddie cases are cause for immediate sympathy, the disappearance of able bodied adults that KNOW what the hell they are doing in the wilderness is far scarier than a wandering 2 year old innocent. Thank you for the efforts. I'd crowd fund your movie efforts again in a hot minute.