The Tinder Swindler
Now we’re getting into documentary territory, but The Tinder Swindler is particularly flashy, and it’s likely to become its own docudrama soon enough. The Netflix documentary that premiered in February this year has became one of the streaming platform’s most watched documentaries. Part true crime, part drama, the story centers around Israeli-born conman Simon Leviev (Originally Simon Hayut) who emotionally manipulated people he met on Tinder into financially supporting him.
As much as this is a documentary, it makes heavy use of reenacted scenes and dark, moody lighting to set up its harsh yet sexy yet melodramatic atmosphere. It’s interesting to note that the Hayut was only fully banned from Tinder and many other dating platforms until after the documentary came out.
And now there’s likely to be a docudrama movie coming out about events depicted in the documentary, according to Variety. So if we’re not over the whole scene by then, that may be something to look forward to.
