This Orphan Horror movies about an adopted Eastern European girl who turns out to be a murderous adult in disguise are ridiculous nonsense. The Curious Case of Natalia Grace proposes a theory that may be realistic.
This proposal is the baffling hook of ID’s six-episode, three-night documentary series event (starting May 29); this story is about an Indian couple who brings a small child into their home, but is determined to suspect him of being a hypocritical, twenties-something sociopath. kill them.
The Curious Case of Natalia Grace‘s prequel—a routine convention of documentary series that mocks the juiciest elements of the forthcoming story—breaks a sort of record for eye-opening details and quotes, and the ensuing story doesn’t disappoint at all, mind-blowing.
The frenzy began on April 26, 2010, when Michael and Kristine Barnett adopted a daughter to join a clan that already consisted of three biological sons: Jacob, Wesley, and Ethan. On the surface, the Barnetts were a happy, close-knit, wealthy middle-class family and even local celebrities thanks to Jacob, an autistic genius. 60 minutes. Adding another member to the family seemed like a great idea to Michael and Kristine, and the process happened quickly through a Florida agency, and Michael remembers thinking it was a little shadier than he expected when he visited.
The girl they returned with was six-year-old Natalia, who has a rare condition of dwarfism known as spondyloepiphysis. After a very short honeymoon, Natalia allegedly began to exhibit confusing and disturbing tendencies. She was apparently born in Ukraine, had no accent, spoke fluent English, and boasted a mature grasp of the language. She had a habit of urinating and contaminating surfaces and her siblings. He piled the knife under his bed and was once caught by his parents, who were sleeping with a knife in his hand. He poured Pledge into Kristine’s coffee cup to poison her. Most surprising of all, she was found to have pubic hair, and soon Kristine discovered her blood-stained underwear – at which point Natalia admitted that she was supposedly menstruating.
By 2012, these signs showed Michael and Kristine that Natalia was indeed a grown woman disguised as a child, and even homicidal. Thus, they successfully petitioned for her re-ageing, changing her official year of birth from 2003 to 1989. This fourteen-year leap was the first way to deal with their unique situation. Since the state of Indiana only requires adults to be responsible for children up to the age of 21 (and Natalia is now 22, legal), Kristine rented an apartment and left Natalia there to more or less take care of herself. Just as The Curious Case of Natalia Grace It includes interviews with Jacob Barnett confirming the accusations of her parents against Natalia, while camera footage from various apartment complex neighbors also describes Natalia’s bizarre, inappropriate, and completely unstable adult behavior, from stalking residents and breaking into their homes, trying to possess her. sexual relations with young men.
first half The Curious Case of Natalia Grace full of anecdotes about Natalia OrphanIt’s eerie eerie where it’s easy to think something weird is on its way. Although it covers a wide variety of interview topics that know and/or relate to Natalia and Barnetts, thanks to the separate 2019 and 2022 chats, Michael is the guiding voice. Still, the deeper the documentary series delves into its story, the less it comes across as a credible narrator. Joyful, screaming-crazy, defensive and crying respectively, Michael paints an attractive portrait of Natalia as a monster, grimacing only blaming her entire ordeal, which leaves her divorced, estranged from two of these three sons, and confronted with the culprit. the prosecution, about Kristine – all the while blatantly avoided mentioning her own role in this frenzy.
Like The Curious Case of Natalia Grace After Michael and Kristine placed Natalia in a second, more dangerous and unsuitable apartment in Lafayette, Indiana, a woman took Natalia and a local detective began investigating how Natalia had been left on her own. This inspector did not believe that Natalia was an adult, and when she visited her birth mother in Ukraine, a DNA result came to confirm this: Natalia was born in 2003, meaning she had been abandoned for the first time by Michael and Kristine. nine.
It wasn’t long before Michael was handcuffed and looking at four indictments. However, in perhaps the craziest part of the whole thing, the presiding judge refused to let Natalia’s age be a factor in the case; Michael was accused of abandoning his disabled adult daughter, rather than a child, because the judge determined that her age of majority had already been determined by the previous court order.
Even the forerunner of Michael’s jury concedes that this was an understatement of fairness. Still, don’t separate fact from fiction. The Curious Case of Natalia Grace It is never entirely easy. ID’s documentary series relies heavily on sinister Natalia selfies and silly dramatic reenactments to imply that Natalia is a demon. These are then countered with videos and pictures taken by Kristine – in which Natalia is mistreated and she is in extremely sexual situations – exposing her as an abusive and manipulative tyrant. As for Michael, he is shedding so many crocodile tears that nothing he says is believable.
A candid closing quote from him (“It’s okay, you don’t get the crying version. If you want the crying version, I’ll throw it”) makes it clear that the producers were similarly unconvinced, which isn’t surprising considering. former bad luckLive microphone style talk between Michael and Jacob that reveals their calculated plans to hide domestic violence.
When he comes to his unorthodox, exploitative conclusion, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace It turned from a review of Natalia’s true nature to a series about the evil of Michael and Kristine. The fact that Kristine is still awaiting trial means that ID’s latest movie is almost certain to get a sequel – just as the fact that its finale holds back a suggestive bombshell that looks like it will shock and dismay even more.