10-01-2016, 11:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2016, 02:34 PM by bionicbob. Edited 3 times in total.)
Netflix's AMANDA KNOX documentary...
Watched this morning, left me feeling angry and frustrated.
The complicit nature of the media and narrow mindedness of the police investigation is staggering.
The main reporter comes across as a bottom feeding, slimy, sensationalist who cared nothing about fact checking, only headlines.
And the lead investigator.... I don't know, maybe its a culture thing, but he came across as arrogant, a man who formed his theory based on his dislike of an american woman being young, independent and heaven forbid, sexually active(!!!), and forced the evidence to support his theory and disregarded anything else that conflicted.
If you have followed this case over the years and have already formed an opinion, I don't think it will sway it one way or the other. Nothing new is truly revealed, what really happened that night of the murder is still a mystery, but it is compelling viewing to see it all put together in one package.
Weaknesses of the doc for me, I felt the murder victim Meridith Kercher and who she was as a person was glossed over and deserved better. I would have like the doc to have been more in-depth, more background, more expert opinions, some alternate investigation/evidence/theories... definitely more information about Rudy Guede.
Also, the doc feels a bit too slick, too polished.... almost scripted. Especially the Amanda Knox interview portions.
I don't know.... its not the doc I was expecting or hoping for.... it is not a hard investigation piece, statements by Knox, the police, and others are not challenged or fully explored and it does not suggest any answers, but it does offer insight into the people involved and how culture/media influences events.
I give it 6 out of 10.
Watched this morning, left me feeling angry and frustrated.
The complicit nature of the media and narrow mindedness of the police investigation is staggering.
The main reporter comes across as a bottom feeding, slimy, sensationalist who cared nothing about fact checking, only headlines.
And the lead investigator.... I don't know, maybe its a culture thing, but he came across as arrogant, a man who formed his theory based on his dislike of an american woman being young, independent and heaven forbid, sexually active(!!!), and forced the evidence to support his theory and disregarded anything else that conflicted.
If you have followed this case over the years and have already formed an opinion, I don't think it will sway it one way or the other. Nothing new is truly revealed, what really happened that night of the murder is still a mystery, but it is compelling viewing to see it all put together in one package.
Weaknesses of the doc for me, I felt the murder victim Meridith Kercher and who she was as a person was glossed over and deserved better. I would have like the doc to have been more in-depth, more background, more expert opinions, some alternate investigation/evidence/theories... definitely more information about Rudy Guede.
Also, the doc feels a bit too slick, too polished.... almost scripted. Especially the Amanda Knox interview portions.
I don't know.... its not the doc I was expecting or hoping for.... it is not a hard investigation piece, statements by Knox, the police, and others are not challenged or fully explored and it does not suggest any answers, but it does offer insight into the people involved and how culture/media influences events.
I give it 6 out of 10.
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