Extended Reading
  • Aletha 2022-04-13 08:01:01

    West of Memphis - 8/10

    I knew about this case earlier because of the highly rated Paradise Lost trilogy. Because of my curiosity about this case, I planned to watch these three documentaries, but I did not expect to watch West of Memphis in the theater.

    The film basically tells the story of the case and everything that...

  • Micaela 2022-04-13 08:01:01

    "West Memphis"--The Cruel Breakthrough of the "Justice" Butterfly

    Cause of event:

    In 1993, the bodies of three boys were found in a ditch, with numerous wounds on their bodies, suspected of being sexually assaulted, and a boy whose genitals were castrated.

  • Ophelia 2022-04-13 09:01:07

    This is a shortened version of Paradise Lost, a three-year feature documentary from 1991 to 2011. I wrote about this case when I was at Lens. It was a complicated and long injustice case, and it was better than the average criminal investigation film. The culprit has not yet been arrested.

  • Josefa 2022-04-17 09:01:13

    Damian's worship of the devil is specially amplified in the devil's knot. People with eccentric characters always seem to be easily suspected, who is the murderer, whether justice is fair or not, and many questions are unclear.

West of Memphis quotes

  • Damien Wayne Echols: [quoting Stephen King] "All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand, Constant Reader, and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of."

  • Henry Rollins: [when asked why he was drawn to the West Memphis 3 case] Damien liked to hang out alone and wrote in his journals that he was depressed. Hello! He liked to listen to weird music. Check. He was a wise-ass in the face of law enforcement. I mean, are you kidding? It could have been me. Could have been me.