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Documentary: Amanda Knox
Netflix release date: September 30th, 2016
Directors: Rod Blackhurst, Brian McGinn.
Writers: Matthew Hamachek, Brian McGinn
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The Amanda Knox documentary explores the many aspects of the famous case. For those who are unaware, the case involved the murder of Amanda Knox’s roommate and fellow exchange student, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox, an exchange student from Seattle, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaelle Sollecito, were arrested as suspects of the murder. The two were found guilty and spent four years locked away before an appeal case found them not guilty. The documentary shows the time frame of all the major events and the multiple trials which eventually led to an acquittal of Knox and Sollecito. What makes this documentary stand out from other crime documentaries is the scope which the directors took when filming.
The film took an inside look of what was going on while being objective all the way. The film showed how the media and journalists like Nick Pisa focused on Knox’s sexuality and spreading rumors. Nick Pisa could be seen many times throughout the documentary with a smirk as he explains how trying to break a story before anyone else takes a backseat to getting the facts right.”It’s not as if I can say, ‘Right, hold on a minute. I just wanna double-check that myself in some other way.’ I mean, goodness knows how,” he says. “And then I let my rival get in there first before me, and then, hey, I’ve lost a scoop.”
The directors were even able to get the Italian prosecutor of the case, Giuliano Mignini, to be a part of the documentary. Mignini expressed what he felt could have been a motive for Knox murdering her roommate.“Amanda was a girl that was very uninhibited,” Mignini said. “She would bring boys home – and hearing Meredith’s friends, if you could imagine a girl different from Amanda in every imaginable way, it would have been Meredith.” Mignini went on to explain how these differences could have caused Knox and Kercher to argue and eventually lead to Knox murdering her roommate.
The documentary exposes the egos surrounding the case. The film does a good job of humanizing all those involved. “Amanda Knox” shows the true crime that is bad journalism and bad investigating.
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