AIBU to think an Edinburgh festival show about Meredith Kercher's murder should be stopped?

[VivienneDelacroix]

Aibu to think that this show at the Edinburgh Festival should be cancelled? It mocks the circumstances around the murder of Meredith Kercher and serves it up as entertainment.

Not only is it horribly disrespectful of Meredith's family, but it also belittles the issue of violence against girls and women.

Meredith's siblings are calling for it to be pulled from the festival. There is also a petition calling for it to be stopped.

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Yes, Meredith's parents both died prematurely.

But you can turn that around.
The true crime Netflix type docs are going to be made, with or without Knox's permission or cooperation (and have been).
Herself and her own family and friends will have been harangued in the same way your DP's friend was.
Therefore Knox has taken it into her own hands to set the record straight. She has done her own books and productions to regain control of the narrative built around her, which she had no control over.
I think that is her way of coming to terms with it and recover from it.

She’s entitled to tell her story over and over as she pleases. Just as everyone else is entitled not to attend the show.

AK suffered a huge injustice. If she wants to speak publicly about it, fair enough.

It’s interesting that the show has opted out of audience reviews.
Presumably Amanda Knox doesn’t want to be subjected to hate based on people’s understanding of the murder according to what they’ve read in the tabloids.

Right from the start I thought AN was innocent because her immediate behaviour was of someone in shock.
The problem is that many detectives think that someone like AN should behave in a certain way and she didn’t fit the stereotype. She was also terrified and lied when bullied by the Italian police.
The Italian police have, imo, a lot to answer in this case.

I read a lot, I watch news, read X. I had no idea she'd written books (I may read her books now though, so thank you for mentioning).
I'd've had no idea either of her fringe show, if Meredith's sister hadn't gone on TV to talk about it.
Edited to add, why should she lead a 'private' life? She was thrust into the media spotlight, thus she's 100% entitled to control the narrative wherever she can. She has nothing to be ashamed of, so no reason to hide herself away.

I'm in two minds about this. I think doing this as a comedy is in very bad taste - a drama, or telling her story in a thoughtful way, would be different. It's also traumatising for her family. On the other hand I believe more and more in free speech, which I suppose means I have to accept her right to say what she wants.

Having s voice is one thing.

Making money from that experience is another thing entirely.

This woman seems set to eat out for decades on the back of the murdered girl. That is what is shameful here.

So DP's friend would have felt better if he'd profited from his friend's horiffic death and his own lifethreatening injuries? As well as the production companies who used 'we'll just do it anyway, so you might as well join in' as a direct threat?

Nah.

Yes, she doesn't actually have an option that involves no media interest at all. It would flare up on anniversaries, whenever Guede does anything else or gets out again, whenever anyone associated with the case does anything someone else might find worthy of comment. Something that got as much media interest as that and continues to attract a dim but committed cohort of guilt truthers isn't ever going to go away.

I have no idea whether she has those skills or not. Stand-up isn't my genre at all. But she's entitled to do it whether she does it well or badly, and I don't see how anyone signing this petition could know how gifted or otherwise she is.

I didn’t sign the petition. I don’t think it should be banned - as I said in the post you replied to.

We know how gifted (or not) she is because she has hardly been a shy and retiring wallflower since her stint in prison. She’s a public figure. We know the quality of the work she produces. Why would this be any different?

Has she done stand-up before? I don't have an opinion on how good she is, anyway, and I don't think it's relevant to the ethics of the matter. The show is about her own experiences.

I think it's distasteful and I won't go and would prefer if she hadn't done it. But the whole point of the Fringe is that it is not curated or edited or approved, anybody can put on a show about anything so long as it isn't hate speech. There's no quality control and certainly no appropriateness/tastefulness control. That is the point of the Fringe (vs. the International Festival which is curated).

Her arrest and imprisonment cost her family millions, this isn't profiteering for luxury. And her false imprisonment is her story to tell, and sell.

Doesnt this thread explain why she might still be talking about this?

Plenty of oddballs still think she is guilty, despite a lengthy legal process and exoneration. People continue to believe that she was cartwheeling around when she was stretching after days of incarceration. The title isnt ‘disgusting’ - it’s illustrating one of the many untruths that live on in the public mind

Yes, the complaints about her making money would land better if any of them took into account what false imprisonment, trial by media, ongoing Internet circus complete with truthers for many years after she was declared innocent and PTSD do to a person's general employment and earning options.

Amanda Knox doesn't care about Meredith's family at all - she wouldn't have made this if she had any compassion for the pain they are going through.

This is all about Amanda. She has said she did this for her daughter to highlight violence against women. She could have made this in a general way but no, she has insensitively dragged Meredith's murder into it.

Just watched the interview with her on the Channel 5 news. She is prickly, unlikeable and irritated by the criticism she has upset the Kercher family. Her insensitivity is palpable.

I remember when Meredith was killed. It was awful. She's not here to talk. The pretty American white girl was always going go get off.
The black guy however..
AK can spin any story she wants. Meredith doesn't have a voice. Her poor family are having to go through the trauma of having that nasty girl who was definitely involved somehow in her death make money.
It sickens me that AK is making a show out of this- she has not a good bone in her.

As plenty of others have said, it's not a comedy show about the murder, it's about her own experience of being falsely convicted and imprisoned. She was very clearly not guilty.

I do think it’s in bad taste, but I don’t think it can be banned.

I’m surprised that she wants to be in the public eye talking about this and doing a comedy show about it. I do have some sympathy in the sense, when it happened, I remember thinking who is this evil woman. I now realise that she was only 19 or 20 when this was going on I think. That is so young, younger than my children are now. That did spark a twinge of sympathy in me for the way she was treated by the media.

I do think it’s a hugely insensitive show to perform and it certainly makes me think less of her. But I don’t think it should be stopped, and it won’t be .

Yes yes, it's a shame poor Rudy Guede was dragged in and forced to murder a woman by that evil temptress isn't it. He's an innocent victim here.

She ‘got off’ because she didn’t commit the crime. , not because she was white and pretty. She was completely exonerated, but only after she spent years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. The ‘black guy’ did commit the crime. He was convicted not because he was black, but because he was a murderer. He was sentenced to 16 years for murder, but only served 12.

Amanda Knox was not involved in the murder. She is innocent. Same as her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito.

Rudy Guede is the murderer. No one else.

You are 100% right.

I mean, assuming this is true, out the company on social media. This is so far removed from the way they are meant to behave.