Amanda Knox Strengths And Weaknesses

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Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn had created a Netflix documentary named, Amanda Knox, which is based on a real-life young girl who was American that moved to Italy to study abroad. Soon after living there for a while, she was accused of murdering her roommate and, because of this, there is much quantity of suspense in finding who done it. This film is meant to educate the audience from around the world and unravel the story of what really happened to the girl who was murdered, whose name was Meredith Kercher. There were many strengths found in this presentation such as providing specific details of the court cases as well as the evidence found in the mess of everything. There was one major weakness that the film did not come to the conclusion of which was who had done it? …show more content…

The story unfolds by the investigators interrogating her and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, because they were trying to connect pieces of information together on who was guilty. Concluding, the court decides that her and her boyfriend are found innocent due to many flaws found in the investigation, such as there being small amounts of evidence of their crime. There were many shifts found in this film, such as changing from one fault to another and causing several innocent individuals to be convicted of a crime they did not execute. This documentary was well structured in such a way that their audience was able to grasp the story of what really happened by the order of events in which they occurred. This story was distorted world-wide because the media had made it a global issue, which brought in much more complications since it was not within their own country anymore. The audience was startled by how someone can be so cruel in doing such a

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