10 The rise of the so-called true crime, or the reports and podcasts that deal with more or less terrible crimes, raise a whole series of questions and challenges, which are painful to address from the culture of spectacle and inexhaustible entertainment. All these crimes—often sexual, sexist, always morbid, bloody, serial—have become another branch of the narrative tree, a literary and cinematic genre that doesn't draw on fiction. If a story amazes and excites us, it can do so even more when we know that 'it's true,' that what we're being told really happened, and that the characters shown to us as dead died irrevocably, and that the culprits are real people, etc. It's even more frightening, it fuels the morbid fascination even more.

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