The real life story is well known, and I was seriously afraid of how bad taste could be exploring it. There is indeed some exploitation atmosphere in the cheesy music score. Anyway, tone is often a bad one, sometimes too melodramatic, others as stylish action, others as sluggish soap opera, others as cliché thriller... Script is not only shallow but also seems sometimes to justify the brutal crime as her parents (particularly her father) were very unpleasant. The narrative on the boyfriend, the good hard-working boy with perfect parents, also bothered me. It is just business: audience was predictably easy, and Amazon Studios did not care either about producing a good film or about respecting the dramatic real-life event, as profit is the goal.
Review of The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
