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Suffice it to say, everything that could go wrong did.
The things we acted on were subconscious, Reinhard tells Vulture.
Not really knowing what the outcome was going to be.
And that was sort of what we were after: this unknown.
Not really knowing where the path was going to take us.
We kind of latched onto this idea as a way out.
Adds Lipka: At some point there are elements of a radicalization that happened.
I mean, not illnesses.
But just ways to upend your status quo.
How do you take what you know and flip it on its head?
What we knew at the time?
Being products of the middle-class, white existence?
Prior to incarceration, all four men seemed destined for more conventional lives.
So what changed his tune?
To be very transparent, I had a lot of things going on in my personal life.
I just didnt care what happened.
I didnt care if we actually got away with it.
I didnt care if we got caught.
I just knew I wanted things to be different.
But finding the library unexpectedly crowded, the four aborted their plan, returning the following day.
Its not something we look back on with fondness to any degree, says Borsuk.
Although they dropped the most valuable Audubon engravings, the criminals didnt leave empty-handed.
Then they went back to school.
Yeah, the day of the heist a couple of us had exams to take, says Borsuk.
It was a surreal experience to go from a crime scene back to a classroom.
Professional rare book dealers, the specialist concluded, these were certainly not.
We were really careful, adds Borsuk.
We just didnt want it to end up being a movie where everyone looked slick and over-glamorized.
We really wanted to find someone willing to tell a different kind of story.
To try something new something raw and brutal and honest.
He is asking some poignant questions about our time, Lipka says.
Instead of turning away and just being like, Ah, these kids are fucking dum-dums.
And now, we obviously blurred the lines between fantasy, fiction, and reality.
