Another doco followed - the early part of my schedule is chock-full of them! THE VIDEO DAIRY OF RICARDO LOPEZ. This was... devastating. You know films so utterly devastating that the audience just walks out and everybody is avoiding each other's looks?
RICARD LOPEZ... is assembled 100% from 18 tapes worth of Ricardo's soliloquies to camera. In it he candidly talks about the two acts that will define him to the world: his suicide, and the mail-bomb that will - he hopes - kill pop singer Bjork. We see him agonising about what sort of acid to use in the bomb - testing 36% proof sulfuric acid on his own hand and deciding that only 100% would do. This is the real heart of darkness, a real Travis Bickle twisting in the wind: someone struggling with their sanity and eventually losing the battle. Hard to watch but equally hard to forget.