Between "killed them all" and all lights out: 24 seconds.

Between all lights out and the beginning of the credits: 47 eternal seconds.

The manipulation of silence is incredibly powerful here, but it's all the more so because the static, unchanging visuals force the viewer to concentrate wholly on the sound, which seems to build and contradict, switch mode of address, defend and chide before culminating in the one utterance that resists any sort of misinterpretation: "Killed them all."

I want to believe that that's the last thing Durst said before leaving the bathroom, that that was the last interaction between Jarecki and Durst, that that was the last piece of footage ever collected for The Jinx. That that was the end.

Clearly, it was not, even though no small portion of editorial agency has led us to believe otherwise. I resist the urge, however, to ascribe Jarecki and his team with some sort of guilt. All filmmakers, documentarians, and television journalists included, manipulate what's in front of them. Sometimes that editing is simply the process of selection — where do we film, who do we interview; other times it's in the editing room, or how they use titles and graphics and music to guide the viewer's understanding. (Jarecki has claimed that he did not discover the audio of Durst in the bathroom for two years.)

Ultimately, the question of Durst's guilt or innocence is one that no film can decide. The timing of Durst's arrest seems like a Hollywood ending (though the Los Angeles Police Department says it's not); either way, Jarecki certainly has turned up crucial new evidence in the form of an envelope. Now a jury of Durst's peers will figure this out; on Monday, Durst was charged with first-degree murder for the death of Susan Berman.

Documentary can educate. It can enlighten. But it's also an art and the product of humans and their very real prejudices, opinions, subjectivities. It's our responsibility to interrogate it with the same ferocity and mindfulness with which we approach any other attempt to transform the world around us into art that moves us.