魔鬼绳结 Devil's Knot (2013)

因为科叔，找来这部电影观看。
第一眼想到的是韩国大邱青蛙少年失踪案，年幼无知的孩子，失踪被害、案子至今未破。这部电影与《孩子们》不同的是，妖魔化了的宗教掺杂其中。而大篇幅的法庭审讯弱化了观赏性，虽然有科叔也没有挽救口碑。
主要原因在于，一起凶杀案，观者关注的是杀人者是谁，这部电影的切入点是邪教。或许真实事件也是这样的吧：案发，警方内定凶手，然后围绕给凶手定罪搜集证据。
如果真是这样，美国警察如此不负责任也真让人大跌眼镜，难道只为了打击邪教而借刀杀人？监督者又在哪里？或许掩...

75分，2014年看过这起真实案件的纪录片《孟菲斯以西》，虽然影片种类不同，比较起来不太科学，但总的来说，纪录片还是要更值得推荐一些，因为这部《魔鬼绳结》处理的角度并不是案件的中心焦点，把太多镜头给了表现失子之痛的母亲，调查员对案子的侦查也显得紧张度不够，对这样一起极其具备争议的事件，没有充分体现它的矛盾和冲突，如果二选一的话，我肯定会选那部纪录片。

Aaron Hutcheson,the boy who told such extraordinary stories to the police,now says he has no idea what really happened.
His mother,Vickimalso recanted her testimony,claiming the police threatened her and"scared her to death".
Two years after the trial,John Mark Byers'wife was found dead in the family home,Her cause of death was ruled"undeterminde".
The police nover submitted Terry Hobbs'hair samples collected in1993 for testing.
Ton Lax continued to work for the defense team,and in 2006 secretly obtained an additional DNA sample from Treey Hobbs.
In 2007,the Defense tested the DNA sample obtained by Ron Lax and a hair sonsistent with Terry Hobbs'DNA was found in one of the bindings used to tie up Michael Moore.
The bliidy man fro Bojangles'restaurant was never found.

After eighteen years in prison,Damien,Jason and Jessie negotiated arare Alford Plea deal with the State of Arkansas.
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