One other grating factor is the way in which the story is overlaid by the sort of irreverent millennial narration, from Van Patten as Knox, which recollects different current true-crime dramatisations equivalent to Inventing Anna or Apple Cider Vinegar. In making an attempt to ape the type of those different “lighter” reveals, it takes away from the severity of the particular case in hand.Â
The wave of ‘reclaiming’ narrativesÂ
Nevertheless, after the gross injustice of being framed for a homicide you did not commit, it is comprehensible why Knox would need to put the story straight as soon as extra – and “reclaim” her narrative. That is one thing which a bunch of popular culture documentaries, podcasts and dramatisations have purportedly helped well-known girls to do over the previous decade, casting a brand new gentle on ’90s feminine celebrities and figures like Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, Monica Lewinsky and Tonya Harding, who have been caught up in scandals that noticed them demonised in a public discussion board.
Apparently, Lewinsky is an government producer on The Twisted Story of Amanda Knox, alongside Knox herself, having co-produced Ryan Murphy’s 2021 miniseries Impeachment: American Crime Story, which retold the story of her affair with the then US President Invoice Clinton from her perspective. A few of these tasks, just like the Lewinsky drama, have been performed with the involvement of their topics, and a few, like Hulu’s Pam and Tommy, about Pamela Anderson’s intercourse tape scandal, have been performed with out. Nevertheless as Jessica Bennett requested in The New York Instances of this complete sub-genre of “reclaiming the narrative” productions: “It’s no secret that people love consuming spectacle – and we doubly love a spectacle when it entails girls and intercourse. However at what level does the fictional depiction of that spectacle, and our viewing of it, change into simply as dangerous as watching it within the first place?”
Knox has stated that the sequence is meant to focus on that the actual killer was Guede, which is legitimate level – provided that Guede was given a “quick observe” trial and convicted for the homicide out of the general public eye, with out being subjected to the identical intense media scrutiny as Knox. She just lately advised Newsweek: “Nobody cares about this man who really murdered my roommate. I believe that’s so indicative of what was happening on the time, and has at all times been happening with this case, [which] is the concept that it wasn’t ever even actually about Meredith… The reality of what occurred to her, and the reality of the one that really did it, received utterly misplaced for the sake of a scandalous story.”
