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Compromised justice
Flo 2022-04-13 08:01:01
"West Memphis" is a documentary about the murder of three boys in Memphis, Arkansas, USA in 1993. As far as the film itself is concerned, the production level of this film is quite high. It shows the height of the American society under the rule of law. For the innocent three suspects, the 147-minute film time obviously cannot outline the pain of their 18-year prison life after losing their freedom. Moreover, the real culprit has not been brought to justice so far. Suspects, this result is just a compromise and compromise, even if they exchanged the freedom that should belong to them at this price; I am very emotional about the spontaneous and unremitting pursuit of justice and truth by civilians in the context of the American legal concept. On the other hand, in China, the social atmosphere of "everyone sweeps the door and does not care about the frost of others" is really a world of reality gap.
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Darion 2022-04-17 09:01:13
Personally, I am not very satisfied with this small and fresh ending, because in the end, even if the loopholes in the judicial process were discovered, they were not corrected. The murderer has not yet been brought to justice.
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Krista 2022-04-13 09:01:07
I saw this film directly without watching the Paradise Lost Series. As a bystander who learned about this case for the first time, I still deeply feel that as a documentary, it lacks the necessary objectivity. The public carnival and the final outcome make people even more worried that this pursuit of justice has changed.
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Damien Wayne Echols: The thing I like most about time is that it's not real. It's all in the head. Sure, it's a useful trick if you wanna meet someone at a specific place in the universe to have tea or coffee. But that's all it is, a trick. There's no such thing as the past, it exists only in the memory. There's no such thing as the future, it exists only in our imagination. If our watches were truly accurate the only thing they would ever say is now.
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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."