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Paradise Lost

  • 06-12-2012 1:21am
    #1
    bigron2109
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    Started watching Paradise Lost tonight. Didn't realise it was a 3 Part Documentary. Each Part is about 2 hours. Quiet a Good Documentary.

    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsy about the trials of three teenage boys who came to be known as the West Memphis Three in West Memphis. They were accused of the murder and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys. The boys on trial for the crime were Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin. The film was followed by two sequels: Paradise Lost 2: Revelations and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.

    Any one seen it and whats their opinions on it?


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  • #2
    JayzuzHowiye
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    Seen all three parts over the course of a few months, thought it was really gripping stuff.


    There are quite a few disturbing scenes (child corpses etc.) but I found myself glued to it, and reading a hell of a lot of case files on it too. Crazy how you can be imprisoned through guilt of association really. It's deffinitely worth a watch. Would rather not discuss too much of it as its a long time since I seen them, bit hazy and might mix them up.

    Edit: seen you have watched 3 parts.

    I know there was a lot of or a lot of a lack of evidence to sentence them, but, some things still stay in my mind, being that Jessie Misskelly did confess, its hard to know if one really was coerced.

    The alford plea for their release was also such a weird move, fair play to Jason Baldwin on accepting it, otherwise Damien Echols most likely would have been executed.


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