PARADISE LOST 3 : PURGATORY - 9 out of 10
If there is one thing that you should be proud of in Britain it's our justice system. Be thankful that we don't have the clowns in our courts that were involved in the court case that sent The West Memphis three to prison back in 1993 and who still have influence as to the outcome of the lives of these three innocent men.
This is the third film of The Paradise Lost documentaries about three men sent to prison for the murder of three 8 year old boys back in 1993. It starts by covering some old ground that we have seen in the first two films then follows the fight to get the men ( they were only teenagers when it happened) freed and even has insight into who possibly could have been the real killer.
I have found all three documentaries fascinating but his one has to be the best of the lot. It is still immensely harrowing because it shows very upsetting scenes of crime footage of the dead 8 year old boys ( and i still question why we need to see those pictures ) and because of new DNA techniques it comes some way to helping the three who incarcerated - but not in a way that is satisfactory.
It shows up the deep flaws in the American justice system and how blinkered these ageing judges are that have the fate of so many people in their wrinkled little hands.
You don't have to have seen the first two films because it quite self explanatory as to what has happened and i recommend that everyone gets to see this fascinated film. I don't think it will be the last either.
If there is one thing that you should be proud of in Britain it's our justice system. Be thankful that we don't have the clowns in our courts that were involved in the court case that sent The West Memphis three to prison back in 1993 and who still have influence as to the outcome of the lives of these three innocent men.
This is the third film of The Paradise Lost documentaries about three men sent to prison for the murder of three 8 year old boys back in 1993. It starts by covering some old ground that we have seen in the first two films then follows the fight to get the men ( they were only teenagers when it happened) freed and even has insight into who possibly could have been the real killer.
I have found all three documentaries fascinating but his one has to be the best of the lot. It is still immensely harrowing because it shows very upsetting scenes of crime footage of the dead 8 year old boys ( and i still question why we need to see those pictures ) and because of new DNA techniques it comes some way to helping the three who incarcerated - but not in a way that is satisfactory.
It shows up the deep flaws in the American justice system and how blinkered these ageing judges are that have the fate of so many people in their wrinkled little hands.
You don't have to have seen the first two films because it quite self explanatory as to what has happened and i recommend that everyone gets to see this fascinated film. I don't think it will be the last either.