Dhoistable from today on Disney+, The twisted such of Amanda Knox It is – of course – a series On the 2007 crime of Perugia, but based almost exclusively on the biography of one of the main accused, Amanda Knox. A narrative voice very self -indulgent that does not give never room for the real victim, Meredith Kerchner. To produce the Mini series in eight episodes, in addition to Knox herself, there is Monica Lewinsky, The 1995 sex scandal intern with the then president Bill Clinton.
The twisted such of Amanda Knoxthe plot of the Dosney+ series
The events unfold between present and past. 2022: Amanda Knox (Grace Van Patten) returns to Perugia. He is traveling hidden by car, next to his mother (Sharon Horgan), husband (Jared Canfield) and daughter Eureka, a few months old. Nobody should know that he is in Umbria. Although all family members think it is a bad idea and fear a trap, she promised to meet someone very important for her.
A long flashback is the girl’s exhibition, surrounded by toys and affectionate parents. Amanda is fine in school, she has a lot of imagination, many friends and everyone finds her adorable. After finishing the high school, His greatest desire is to study for 6 months in Italy.
In the autumn of 2007, the girl is in Perugia And Share a house together with 3 other students: the Italians Laura, Filomena and English Meredith. Tutto seems magical: the city, the landscape, the Italians, the new friendships. To earn something, he works as a waitress at Patrick Lumumba’s bar.
Grace Van Patten and Giuseppe De Domenico in “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox”. (Disney+)
The twisted such of Amanda KnoxMeredith’s death
In her imagination, the girl lives a fairytale life and He even meets his Prince Charming. Has a face and kindness of Raffaele Sollecito (Giuseppe De Domenico), Apulian student with a respectable air. The two are liked immediately and live a very intense week, always together. On the morning of November 2, After spending the night from Raffaele, Amanda returns home to change. Despite the open door, none of the tenants present and traces of blood in the bathroomthe girl takes a shower as if everything were normal.
When he discovers a broken glass of the window and the room of Meredith locked, worried He asks for help from Raffaele. From that moment, things fall. The police intervenes and discover on the bed The body of the English roommate, died of a deep cut to the throat. For the scarce knowledge of the Italian and the ambiguity of his responses, Amanda immediately becomes the main suspect. The police They believe it a manipulative liar, a perverted who blamed an innocent – Lumumba, his employer – And he uses his accomplice like a little dog Raffaele.
For Amanda Knox, What was supposed to be a romantic Italian adventure turns into a nightmare. Ends up in prison, It undergoes numerous processes, it is badly treated by the press. Even when the flood arrives acquittal, suspicions and gossip about his sexual conduct never stop persecuting it.
Despite the love of her husband Chris, the publication of her memories and civil commitment, She is missing something. The clarifying meeting with the prosecutor Mignini (Francesco Acquaroli), still convinced of his guilt.
The review: a series full of stereotypes about Italy
The 8 episodes of the Disney+ series they tell One of the most tangled black news events of the last 30 years. Meredith Kerchner’s murder, His true killer Rudy Guede and the odyssey experienced by the innocent Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. The narrative design, however, leaves a lot to be desired. On the one hand, develop correctly the stages of judicial history, rightly emphasizing the errors and naivety of the Italian police.
On the other, he returns an image of his protagonist closer to the agiography of a saintby completely erasing its proven ambiguity. An ambivalence that can also be heard in the total absence of the victim in the storyglimpsed in some inconsistent flashback.
A further element of annoyance it’s that boring description of an subjugated Italy by superstitionsreligious zeal and various irrationality from the Middle Ages. For the thesis of the Knox, The errors of the investigation are born above all from being not Italian and from his attractiveness and vitality. A sort of Police cultural envy ugly and bad, Employed by an emancipated, free and beautiful American.
On the other hand, what to expect from a state that remained the same as the bucolic portraits from the nineteenth -century Grand Tour, Where the baskets are fallen from the window with lunch to work in the fields, the wine bridesmaids are brought through the streets of A colored Perugia like the walt Disney cartoon seabed?
Grace Van Patten in “The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” (Disney+)
The best of the series? The cast with a very good Grace Van Patten
In short: a naive red riding man ended up in the wolf lair. Of fairy tale, The relationship between Amanda and Raffaele is also tinged with cloying pink. They have known each other for a week but behave like Romeo and Juliet, Two boyfriends against the world. The series turns into melodrama in the description of the solicito personality, seen as an inconclusive mammone Able to throw himself into the fire to save his immaculate girl of the West.
This partial vision does not do justice to the excellent work of actor Giuseppe De Domenicowhich makes its talent available, already highlighted in Vermilion, in dialogues from soap opera and a rather simplistic psychology. Together with him, The cast of interpreters is what manages to save an unlikely, at times irritating script from the shipwreck. Francesco Acquaroli (Sara – The woman in the shade) sings miracles to give dignity to its rolethat of the prosecutor Giuliano Mignini, relegated to a figure of exalted executioner who works on behalf of God.
To hit is the proof of the young Grace Van Patten (Nine perfect strangers) That He manages to make all the nuances of the character of Amanda with rare appraisal and credibility. It is surprising to know that the (de) merit of this zoppa narration is by KJ Steinberg, the author of the Magnificent This is us. The Twister Tale of Amanda Knox appears more A work of conviction from religious sect that an urgent desire to tell a touching truth.