Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Review
Bismarck once said that two things you do not want to see made laws and sausages. After Paradise Lost, I'm not sure to see existing laws, or will. The film recounts the murder and mutilation of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Paradise Lost focuses on the accused in the murder trial of three boys. I came away with many questions about "what really happened."
The filmmakers had access to the defendant, the defendant's family andfamilies of children killed. One defendant has an IQ of only seventy-second Another reason is largely inarticulate. The scenes with the families of murdered children are particularly intense, each family copes with the murders in a very different way.
After the killing started a rumor that the murders were part of a satanic ritual. Advertising and anger about the case has been intense. The filmmakers focus on the fact that the accused "white trash" guys who are not "fit" wasin West Memphis. Could "Goth" kids get a fair trial? The public prosecutor has accused more than an interest in Aleister Crowley and magic.
I think some aspects of the film would have been better. We do not know enough about the accused. I wanted to know more about it than his life as before the murders.
Paradise Lost is an interesting movie, if depressing. This is a sequel and I'm happy that the film too.
Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Overview
One of the most influential documentaries in recent years, the Sundance favorite PARADISE LOST is an emotionally raw, must-see crime doc from two of today's most exciting filmmakers--Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (the team behind Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Brother's Keeper). This dark odyssey began with the tragic murders of three 8-year-old boys, whose bodies were discovered in a shallow creek in West Memphis, Arkansas. The community demanded justice, and one month later the police delivered: three local teenagers accused of sacrificing the boys as part of a Satanic ritual. Despite overwhelming public antipathy towards them, defendants Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley steadfastly maintained their innocence. Although the trial produced virtually no physical evidence connecting the defendants to the crime, the town, the jury, and the police felt that they had their killers, and used the young men’s penchant for heavy metal music and black clothing and a fascination with the Wicca religion as evidence of their guilt. With unprecedented access to all the players, Berlinger and Sinofsky captured the events as they unfolded before their cameras. From actual courtroom footage and clandestine jailhouse interviews to behind-the-scenes strategy meetings and intimate portraits of grief-stricken families, PARADISE LOST is a shocking yet uniquely American real-life drama. DVD Features: Exclusive Trial Footage; Timeline of Events; Trial Updates; Theatrical Trailer; Filmmaker Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection
Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Specifications
On May 6, 1993, the mutilated bodies of three 8-year-old boys were found in a shallow creek in West Memphis, Arkansas. A short time later police arrested three local teenagers, linking the boys' killings to a satanic ritual. One of the boys confessed. The intriguing court case was about to unfold as filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky ventured forth to make this documentary. They captured footage of not only courtroom proceedings but also interviews with the major players in trial--parents, suspects, lawyers. The documentary filmmakers, whose previous film, Brother's Keeper, is as intriguing of a crime story you'll ever see, tells this story without re-creations or flashbacks. The film makes a clear argument that the court trial may not be about witchcraft but a witch hunt. As with any great drama, the faces and situations are etched upon the viewer; however, we are dealing with real lives and real crimes (told gruesomely and necessarily by police photographs and videotape), and the impact is far greater. And so is the maddening ambivalence of the trial. Like the O.J. Simpson fiasco, a verdict is reached but the truth is questioned. Did police make fatal errors the night of the crime? Do last-minute clues lead to justice? Who's lying on the stand? As with Roger and Me and Hoop Dreams, we have a provocative single incident that holds a mirror to many of society's problems. The results are just more horrifying. The Emmy-winning film was followed four years later by Paradise Lost 2: Revelations. --Doug Thomas
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Customer Reviews
Sick! - Eric Borgman - USA
Unless, as you can see, the bodies of brutally murdered children, or a documentary about two men sick, that three children should let murderers run free, and nobody should think that this bad movie made the effort. I was questioned by police footage that the filmmakers called the mutilated corpses of three eight years used as sick. I was with the titration with crosses in the periphery as horrified some cheap horror movie. I was, as the filmmakers Apprently happily show digustedmurderess of children running and primping for the camera. If this were not enough the two directors have decided to lose the music the music of the convicted murderess of their use "film". The propagandist filmmaker is not satisfied with their obvious distaste for the parents of the victims and their Christian religion is trying to help create the evidence at the trial in favor of the skew murderess! This film is quite simply absurd. There is no excuse for this.
Riveting! - Athanasius - NYC
Riveting, yes. But I do not want viewers and critics to bring the conviction that voting is a gross miscarriage of justice that the three boys convicted of the murders are actually innocent. To be sure, can be good, "Paradise Lost" certainly provides ample cause they have reasonable doubt. It 'important to note, however, that the jury presented its verdict is not based on the documentation, but on the evidence in the tests. While I am inclined to believe thatthe boys are not guilty, that the trend is the base document. It 's impossible to be sure that what I did I had a jury's verdict was for one of the tests would have known. And the same goes for anyone to make a definite statement expressed (usually in favor of innocence), after reading the undeniably excellent, "Paradise Lost".
Wow. Just wow. - UhanRodric - USA
This documentary provoked something in me. Are you the first time in the head, these three guys committed a murder beleave very cruel. And all because, like Metallica. And do not take this as I think I did Metallica fans for the problems of world leaders. This is really something during the study. Get ready for a festival Hate ringed with 3 more holes than a Swiss cheese!
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