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News & ArtsSaturday, June 13, 2009
Crime Film Noir
Posted by Charles Mudede on Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Cross-examining Amanda Knox:
When questioned about wrongly naming her part-time employer Patrick Lumumba as the killer to the police, she said she became so confused after "a steady crescendo... of 'I don't know,' 'you're a stupid liar', 'maybes', and 'imagines' that ... I was led to believe I had forgotten things".Even I see a movie in all of this."When I said 'Patrick' I actually started to imagine a kind of movie, images that could have explained the situation, Patrick's face, then (Perugia's) Grimana square, then my house on the night of the murder," she added...
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I've told you, Charles, it's already been done. Robbe-Grillet's "Glissements Progressifs du Plaisir". The story's been told the way you want it to be.
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Man, even our police use confusing and deceitful "interview" techniques to get confessions (or in this case, inconsistencies which implicate guilt) out of naive suspects. This is a gigantic cluster-fuck of a trial. I don't know whether she's guilty or not, but she at least deserves a fair chance. She's gonna do thirty years in an Italian prison because a hotshot prosecutor is more concerned about his career than her life.
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Charles,
I agree. I told a friend Friday that this sordid tale is definitely movie fare. I like the still, its taken from "Double Indemnity" featuring Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck. Great film.
I agree. I told a friend Friday that this sordid tale is definitely movie fare. I like the still, its taken from "Double Indemnity" featuring Fred MacMurray & Barbara Stanwyck. Great film.
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@5 Even you, Charles? What does that mean? You've seen a screenplay in this from the beginning. But good for you. It keeps you from wandering Cap Hill at all hours, pie-eyed on red wine.
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@6: that is irrelevant to the facts of the case.
i hope the italian jury has enough relaxation time this summer to get around to freeing these 2 in the fall.
and someone needs to start working on guede's actual guilt or innocence - he got railroaded.
i hope the italian jury has enough relaxation time this summer to get around to freeing these 2 in the fall.
and someone needs to start working on guede's actual guilt or innocence - he got railroaded.
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Film Noir by Charles and not a single mention of Black Lightning winning the SIFF award - the frickin Golden Space Needle.
That said, you want film noir, go watch Inju, The Beast Within.
That said, you want film noir, go watch Inju, The Beast Within.
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