Those newspaper articles made me appreciate the movie more because of the angle he took on it. He managed to make three heinous individuals KINDA likable
For me, he made them more unlikeable and put Lugo's delusions on screen...The only one that was likeable was Paul and he wasn't a real person, but a mixture of 2 others; Lugo and Doorbal were complete scumbags with no redeeming qualities in the movie...I didn't see them as likeable at all