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I'm confused as to what the preserved corpse of a man last seen in 1968 hidden in a suitcase is supposed to mean. Although that's a quite strange thing to be keeping, was he a murder victim or something?
Harsher in Hindsight might apply if some portion of the documentary is related to the later discovery. As stated in the article, "It is also possible that an actor ... turns out to be a heinous person in real life, but that is not enough to deem all of their scenes as harsher in hindsight; the moment in the work must be somehow related to their heinous actions then felt worse because of the scandal."
Replace "actor" with "documentary subject".
The leading theory is that Corey killed him (either murder or self-defense) and hid the body until her death in 1993 but it was just an example. I'm not sure Harsher in Hindsight really applies since the documentary came out in 1990 and the body was discovered in 1993-ish.
Basically this trope could apply to any documentary positively or neutrally featuring a real person, where some kind of shocking revelation about them came out after the piece of media was released. Maybe that's too vague or real-life-dependent to count as a trope?
Edited by echocanidae
Can't figure out how to word this but I'm looking for a trope that involves the subject of a documentary having something significant revealed about their existence *after* the media was released rather than as a part of it - the example in mind being Dorian Corey, a performer featured in Paris Is Burning, revealed to have had the preserved corpse of a man last seen in 1968 hidden in a suitcase in her apartment in the early 90s.