Amanda Knox comments on the film “inspired by her story”

[CaveMum]

Excellent comments by Amanda Knox on the film “Stillwater” that claims to be inspired by her story.

amandamarieknox.medium.com/who-owns-my-name-93561f83e502

That's a great blog and makes me feel bad for her
It is disgusting how the murder and trial all became about her rather than getting to the truth

that was a great read, and yes, how bad for her

she seems quite philosophical, as I guess she has had to be. but men making use of her story, putting in sex where there was none, selling it. it's not fair, is it?

It’s quite noticeable that all of the projects that have used her name/story have been authored by men isn’t it.

She wrote a book about the case so it’s not like she is shying away from it.

Both making money from the death of a young woman, both as bad.

Both making money from the death of a young woman, both as bad

WTF?

She spent 8 years in prison when she was innocent and she's not allowed to talk about it? what planet are you on?

I’m not sure comparing someone putting across their side of the story after being cleared of a horrendous crime to film makers/writers putting their own spin on something they know nothing about whilst adding in extra “sexy” details to spice it up works

Smacks of the trope the Italian police trotted out at the time about Amanda being some kind of temptress.

Similar, in some ways, to the Emily Ratajkowski book that the photographer published of her. No agency left in how others tell your story, and men profiting from women they don't know. Infuriating.

Very eloquent and thought provoking. I think the point she makes about Damien Matthews at the end is particularly apt. Its pretty disgusting they have linked this firmly with her name but said that it all fiction. Pretty low.

I'm quite disappointed with Matt Damon for doing this film. Amanda Knox has endured enough and I find it appalling she wasn't consulted before going ahead with this.

I started another post in Feminism about the Crime Analyst Podcast, which discusses in great detail the Yorkshire R**r case. The creator, Laura Richards is a criminal behaviour analyst and great advocate speaking out on stalking and male violence against women and girls. She is part of another “real crime” podcast which covered the Meredith Kercher murder case over several episodes and Laura has not spoken about the horrendous treatment of Amanda Knox.

www.realcrimeprofile.com/cases

Sorry, there’s a random “not” in that sentence . It should read “Laura has spoken about the horrendous treatment of Amanda Knox”

That’s a good article.

Amanda’s podcasts “Labyrinths” and “the Truth About True Crime” are both worth a listen, and both of those delve a little deeper into what happened to her, and how the stage is set for people still to exploit her name and image.

@RunningFromInsanity

She wrote a book about the case so it’s not like she is shying away from it.

Both making money from the death of a young woman, both as bad.

Quite impressed how quick the ‘women do it too’ was posted

I need to have a listen to those podcasts and remind myself.

However, when Amanda Knox was released consensus round here was that she'd 'got away with it'. Everyone was convinced that she was still guilty but there was some kind of political pressure.

This isn't just her story, it is Meredith's story. And her family's story. I feel more sorry for them if this is dragged up again.

Meredith Kercher's family are the ones whose views should have been consulted first. Even though most of the publicity has been around Amanda Knox and sometimes Meredith Kercher has almost been forgotten.

It’s not Amanda Knox’s fault that Meredith Kercher has been sidelined.

I wish people would stop blaming AK for the decisions of the police and media.

@newnortherner111

Meredith Kercher's family are the ones whose views should have been consulted first. Even though most of the publicity has been around Amanda Knox and sometimes Meredith Kercher has almost been forgotten.

Amanda Knox has said exactly this, that Meredith has been forgotten. She even linked to a headline that read something like “Amanda Knox’s Roommate’s Murderer Jailed”.

In the instance of this new film, it’s about a young American woman accused of murdering her boyfriend in, I think, France, so there is no relevance to Meredith herself.

I didn’t know this film was based on a real story, I saw the trailer and quite fancied it! I presumed it was based on a novel as it seems a bit like an airport thriller type of thing. Must look into it a bit more, it must be awful to see the worst of your life fictionalised for entertainment.

Amanda Knox hardly made money from writing her story - her family (and Raffael’s) got into horrendous debt to pay the legal fees over the years and years of a terrible miscarriage of justice.

As pp said, Meredith Kercher being sidelined is not Amanda’s fault.

It's all very murky. Not sure if I believe the latest version of the truth.

There's a big difference between "inspired by" and "based on". They took "American falsely convicted/accused of murder in Europe" and went from there. It isn't her case. And yeah, such a film will have her name mentioned in the reviews. I do feel for her--like most public figures, (unintentional ones) she has no control over her own name and discourse. It's a bit much to expect that no one will use this idea for a film though.

@DulciUke

There's a big difference between "inspired by" and "based on". They took "American falsely convicted/accused of murder in Europe" and went from there. It isn't her case. And yeah, such a film will have her name mentioned in the reviews. I do feel for her--like most public figures, (unintentional ones) she has no control over her own name and discourse. It's a bit much to expect that no one will use this idea for a film though.

But as the blog points out, the film promoters keep on using her name in reference to the film.

In one article about the film the case was referred to as “the sordid Amanda Knox saga”. Yet again implying there was something morally questionable about her.

She's a young woman, a beautiful one who apparently liked sex. Of course they're allowed to exploit her.

Thanks for posting this, really good and informative read. To my shame I've not fully appreciated how horrendously she has been treated - they had even arrested Duerte when she was first imprisoned.

So I will get sharing....

Thought Matt Doman was better than this too.