The true purpose of true crime
by Eliana Dockterman
Oct 14, 2017
3 minutes
David Fincher, 55, has made a career of delving into abnormal minds, with Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. But he says his newest project, Mindhunter, on Netflix, is something else. He discussed the show’s genesis and the true-crime boom with TIME.
TIME: Why this show?
Fincher: I was fascinated by the notion that at some point, [J. Edgar] Hoover’s creation—this monolithic, bureaucratic organization—had to say, “There are things
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