Showing posts with label Hayden Panettiere. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hayden Panettiere. Show all posts

Monday, February 21, 2011

Amanda Knox Lifetime Film leaves all in fog

Having  just viewed the Lifetime Movie,  Murder on Trial,  starring Hayden Panettiere  -   which  depicts  the story of the arrest and conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaelle Solecito in Perugia , Italy  - " _________"  ( *note:  2 sentences deleted, for reasons I will discuss elsewhere. SMK) 


Cinematically speaking, it is a well-crafted film:  It is cast in the proper light,  and strikes the right tone;  it is enchanting,  (filmed on location in Perugia) with excellent cinematograpy and music;  well-cast,  and well-acted,  especially by Ms. Panettiere.  The brutal aspects of the murder were blurred,   a move in all likelihood ensuing from the conflict with Italian press,  lawyers, and the victim's family. 


Yet  insofar as tipping me toward the belief of Knox's guilt or innocence,  I am as confused as I have been all along.


  On the one hand,  Knox seems suspect,  has no solid alibi, there are contradictions and strange portents everywhere,    and there well may have been a constellation of events which led to a combustion. 


 On the other,  there was shoddy police work,  mistakes in evidence collecting,  a brutal interrogation,  and Head Prosecutor Mignini -  himself under indictment at the time of Knox's arrest  -  is as obsessive as they come. 


I wonder if the critic who wrote this review is as immersed in the Knox saga as I have been for 3 years;  I wonder also how he can wave away the lack of  solid evidence.  


Whether or not the film will have a substantial impact on public opinion remains unclear. But I am sure Knox's attorneys and family are not pleased that although Knox was not clearly branded as "guilty"  in the film, neither was she cast in the clear light of "innocent abroad".  






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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Knox Film raises doubts about Amanda's Innocence


After watching the movie, I may not have actually changed my mind about her innocence -- but for the first time, I sure have doubts.
That's not because it is one-sided.
Despite what you may have heard, it isn't. Everything is taken from witness and trial testimony and transcript.


Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/knox_ed_up_JSasjjPkymFk34BCnyqb1L#ixzz1EE8q1rtO

Knox-ed Up - NYPOST.com
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Knox-Panettiere and Life-Time in Jail

Hayden Panettiere who plays Clare Bennet from ...Image via WikipediaMaybe because they don’t know the civil law system, maybe because they see them in jail, many perceive Amanda and Raffaele as established murderers or describe them as such in books and films.


 They don’t know that Amanda and Raffaele are just in a provisional detention and they, out of the article 27 (nobody can be considered guilty until the final judgement), are still officially innocent (and, with this evidence, I don’t see how their guilt could be ultimately confirmed).


PERUGIA SHOCK: Battle Knox-Panettiere and Life-Time in Jail
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Amanda Knox film now on trial, lawyers issue legal challenge to Lifetime TV | West Seattle Herald / White Center News