----------------------------Original message---------------------------- From: [log in to unmask] ---- > Yes, the girl whose mother was NOT killed has, in real life, grown up > to be a mystery writer of some success in England. Terry Grose did an > interview with the woman on Fresh Air (NPR) not too long ago. The woman > has another identity now and was distraught when the whole murder affair > revisited her when the film directors found her out in the process of > researching the film (HC). The woman is fascinating to listen to--about > guilt, expiating it, getting on with life, about insanity (she believes > STRONGLY that she and the other girl were in complete control of their > faculties and should by no means have received an innocent because insane > verdict--and they didn't). Her story was much more interesting to me > than the film, which I must admit I strongly disliked (even "hated" perhaps, > though the effects and the photography were very beautiful at times). I > think this has something to do with the film's lack of reflection on the > horror of the events (I personally felt a lack--I'd love to hear > how others might see the film including some sort of reflective voice, some > sort of point of view outside of things, tying it all together--I know > this might be a lot to ask, might even be impertinent to ask, of a film in > this po-mo world). I was disturbed by the way the film asked us to laugh > at the fantasies of the girls and even vicariously participate in their > hatred of the mother (and of the psychoanalyst--is an extension of our > disgust with his condemnation of the girls as "perverted", at which we are > made to laugh during the film, our corroboration of the girl's fantasized > murder of him?). Perhaps I just wasn't easily positioned by the film and > thus missed the point. I have more questions, but I'll not go on now. > Susan Crutchfield > [log in to unmask] To be absolutely fair to the filmmakers, I believe that they were NOT responsible for finding Anne Perry out and were distressed that their decision to make the film had caused her pain. I understand that a journalist saw a resemblance between a photograph of Juliet and one of Anne Perry and that the production of the film at the same time was coincidence. Maggie E Dr Maggie Exon, Senior Lecturer, School of Information and Library Studies, Curtin University of Technology, PO Box U1987, Perth, 6001, Western Australia. Phone (09) 351 7215; Fax (09) 351 3152 email: [log in to unmask]