The usual way to adapt a movie based on a piece of reporting is to tell the story being reported on, leaving out the reporter entirely. With a Jon Ronson book, however, that sort of adaptation doesn’t work. Ronson has a unique ability to illustrate a subject’s bizarre beliefs and ideas without turning them into nut cases or caricatures, and he does it through recounting his personal interactions with the people he’s reporting on. Therefore, leaving out the reporter means losing some of the best parts of the book.

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