It is clear that a lot of similarity between the real-life murder of Meredith Kercher is depicted in the new movie entitled "The Face of an Angel." But upon close examination, you will see that the parallelisms are only in part because the film was based on a book that explores the angle of how the media made the case popular all over the world. The London Evening Standard quoted actress Genevieve Gaunt, who plays a character that closely resembles Amanda Knox in the film adaptation, who said, "It's neither murder nor whodunit. The trial is merely a conduit for other narrative elements."
Knox, who along with ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, were reconvicted this year for the killing of her British roommate, has since been appealing with the French court to overturn their verdicts. Enstarz talked about an opinion piece on the New York Observer by Nina Burleigh, who argued how Knox was possibly discriminated in the Italian media and the country as the case progresses. She likened Knox's case to that of a black man in the US, as she was an outsider in Italy and could very likely be an easy target for the Italian justice system.
"Outliers, strangers, minorities and people with no access to the levers of power can go from merely suspicious to convicted fast when a crime occurs, anywhere," she wrote.
Film director Michael Winterbottom reportedly took a large interest in taking US journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau's book "Angel Face" into a collaborative film project to reveal media influence on the opinions and feelings of many people in a high-profile case. My Next Fone reports that Winterbottom is insistent that the film is not a documentary nor is it an autobiography of the case. He said that the film was in fact his own rendition of just how violence is an public obsession of the public.
""After meeting Barbie in Rome, I felt like maybe using the journalist would be a good starting point for [questioning] why the media is so obsessed with murder and these kinds of stories and trials," Winterbottom was quoted as saying.
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