My wife and I went to see Stillwater at the theater last weekend. It's a very watchable film but not a blockbuster. Some people have criticized it because it was "inspired" by the true story of Amanda Knox, and the filmmaker did not deny this fact. But the film actually focuses more on her father than the stand-in for Knox, so we get an entirely different story with just the framing of the Knox ordeal. I was impressed by the depth and complexity of the characters, versus the carboard cutouts we get in a lot of films. I felt like I knew Bill extremely well at the end of the film and I had sympathy for him despite some of the foolish things he had done.
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
~Julius Sumner Miller