Re: Batman Vs Superman, And Oh Yeah, Suicide Squad: Movies Thread
Anyone else watch the new documentary on Amanda Knox on Netflix? I'd give it mixed reviews at best.
If the case interested you at all, you do get a bit of the flavor of where the murder happened, with a fair amount of photos and press video. You also get extensive interviews with the major players, including Knox, her boyfriend and the primary prosecutor/investigator. But if you're looking for someone to ask the hard questions, you won't get it here.
It doesn't appear that it was a great investigation by the police, there doesn't really seem to be any physical evidence tying Knox to the crime, and the prosecution's theory seems largely unsubstantiated and bizarre, but I really thought the filmmaker could have done a better job following up on a couple of things.
First, Knox gives an account of that morning that makes no sense. She was a young woman, in a foreign country, and after spending a night with a guy she met just a week before, she returns to her home to discover the front door busted open. Without checking around the apartment, she walks inside and takes off her clothes to take a shower. She sees blood in the bathroom, but that doesn't raise any alarm bells.
She takes the shower. When getting out, for the first time she notices blood on the bathmat (a photograph shows the bathmat with a huge bloody footprint on it). She dries her hair and gets dressed. Then she looks around the apartment and sees her roommates door closed. She tries it and it's locked.
She then calls this new boyfriend, who comes over and tries to get in the door. They eventually call the cops.
I don't know. I'm not sure there are too many young women who upon returning home in a foreign country to see their front door busted open would react in the same way.
They also interviewed a "journalist" from Great Britain who was the primary gossip driver on the case. At the end, when he basically blamed the prosecutors for all the misinformation he sent out, he said something to the effect that it wasn't his fault. They gave him faulty information. It's not like he could go out and verify it. If he did, he probably wouldn't get the scoop.
Probably the highlight for me was the interview with the attorney for Rudy Guide, the guy who is still in prison for the actual murder. He expressed unhappiness with the American press second guessing his legal strategy. He said that in 1308 one of the first lectures on legal theories was presented in the same courthouse where he tried his case. In America, in 1308, they were painting pictures of buffalo on caves.
