Marriage Story: Popplewell Explores Watts Family Tragedy
If Tolstoy asserted through his opening statements in Anna Karenina an adage of all happy families being the same, before even sliding into his opposing notation about their counterparts, perhaps its time to realize there’s really no such thing as a happy family. Such could be the observation from sifting through the plethora of filmed materials regarding the Watts family tragedy of 2018, wherein a married Colorado man murdered his pregnant wife and their two children. Director Jenny Popplewell edits together an extraordinary amount of filmed material, from police body cams, a bevy of social media material from victim Shanann Watts, and the ensuing filmed courtroom trial to fixate on what may have been a media frenzy story with a narrative now so familiar it’s become an expected cliché—at least one mined continually in the annals of Dateline and other such...
If Tolstoy asserted through his opening statements in Anna Karenina an adage of all happy families being the same, before even sliding into his opposing notation about their counterparts, perhaps its time to realize there’s really no such thing as a happy family. Such could be the observation from sifting through the plethora of filmed materials regarding the Watts family tragedy of 2018, wherein a married Colorado man murdered his pregnant wife and their two children. Director Jenny Popplewell edits together an extraordinary amount of filmed material, from police body cams, a bevy of social media material from victim Shanann Watts, and the ensuing filmed courtroom trial to fixate on what may have been a media frenzy story with a narrative now so familiar it’s become an expected cliché—at least one mined continually in the annals of Dateline and other such...
- 9/28/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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