The show is pretty good, however the character Netflix created is pretty far what Sobhraj was. I remember reading everything I could about Sobhraj even before the internet existed and I roamed in the same area.
Netflix took the easy path, describing Sobhraj as a creepy unexpressive individual, enjoying to kill and permanently posing as a victim of wacism.
He was none of these things, or he could be at any given time if needed. That is why he was such a fascinating character. He spoke perfectly well many languages (around 10 if I remember correctly), and he could easily has been a university teacher in international and national laws, History, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and many more areas.
He was not creepy, he was the most charming person you'll ever met and made you fall in love with him. He was like a fish in the water everywhere.
Netflix shows noone of that.
He had an extreme level of IQ and EQ that he was using for crimes that were not even that impressive (killing people for a passport ? That an overkill to say the least). I remember somewhere around early 2000' reading an article mentioning he had been caught in the south of France trying to steal a watch or something like that on an open air market.
He was not a victim, and certainly not from wacism. France in the 70's is not the USA, no-one would care to see a remotely Asian looking guy at a Marseilles's school or being a gem dealer in Paris. Plus France gave him everything and more after her mother brought him from Saigon.
He was such not a victim that he learned German in a few months .... just so he could read Nietschze without translation as he loved the Super Human concept. He would never whine about wacism .... but it is 2021 so Big Businesses like Netflix has to make everything fitting their antiwhite/antimale agenda.
Also, race had nothing to do with the targeting of its victims, he targeted Europeans because they were the richest but also had some none withe victims.
Usually he would not kill his victims, but sometime he did. I think he was just a psychopath, he would kill just so the victim will stop moving and talking. Nothing more.
The (super wacist country of France) freed him and gave him everything in the 90's (because we are so wacist in France), but at the end of the day, I'm glad he got a taste of Nepalese real Justice.
Netflix took the easy path, describing Sobhraj as a creepy unexpressive individual, enjoying to kill and permanently posing as a victim of wacism.
He was none of these things, or he could be at any given time if needed. That is why he was such a fascinating character. He spoke perfectly well many languages (around 10 if I remember correctly), and he could easily has been a university teacher in international and national laws, History, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy and many more areas.
He was not creepy, he was the most charming person you'll ever met and made you fall in love with him. He was like a fish in the water everywhere.
Netflix shows noone of that.
He had an extreme level of IQ and EQ that he was using for crimes that were not even that impressive (killing people for a passport ? That an overkill to say the least). I remember somewhere around early 2000' reading an article mentioning he had been caught in the south of France trying to steal a watch or something like that on an open air market.
He was not a victim, and certainly not from wacism. France in the 70's is not the USA, no-one would care to see a remotely Asian looking guy at a Marseilles's school or being a gem dealer in Paris. Plus France gave him everything and more after her mother brought him from Saigon.
He was such not a victim that he learned German in a few months .... just so he could read Nietschze without translation as he loved the Super Human concept. He would never whine about wacism .... but it is 2021 so Big Businesses like Netflix has to make everything fitting their antiwhite/antimale agenda.
Also, race had nothing to do with the targeting of its victims, he targeted Europeans because they were the richest but also had some none withe victims.
Usually he would not kill his victims, but sometime he did. I think he was just a psychopath, he would kill just so the victim will stop moving and talking. Nothing more.
The (super wacist country of France) freed him and gave him everything in the 90's (because we are so wacist in France), but at the end of the day, I'm glad he got a taste of Nepalese real Justice.
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