(No real spoilers below, but in case you don't want to know all the details of the case, I marked it as containing spoilers anyway)
A documentary about Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American to be sentenced to death and be exonerated by DNA fingerprinting. He was wrongfully convicted of the very brutal murder of a 9-year old girl.
He spent almost 9 years in prison before getting released. It was his own idea to use DNA to prove his innocence after reading a book about using DNA for convicting a murderer. 10 years after his release it turned out that the real killer was a prisoner in the same prison as Bloodsworth, one floor below his cell.
I didn't really like the presentation, jumping back and forth from telling the details of the murder and conviction while showing his post- exoneration political activism interchangeably. Also, the use of strange editing techniques (statics, noise, black and white) was inappropriate, annoying and distracting. The animated recreations were also unnecessary, but harmless.
The documentary itself is lacking and the technicalities are really annoying, but the subject matter is interesting enough to keep you through the entire duration of the film.
A documentary about Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American to be sentenced to death and be exonerated by DNA fingerprinting. He was wrongfully convicted of the very brutal murder of a 9-year old girl.
He spent almost 9 years in prison before getting released. It was his own idea to use DNA to prove his innocence after reading a book about using DNA for convicting a murderer. 10 years after his release it turned out that the real killer was a prisoner in the same prison as Bloodsworth, one floor below his cell.
I didn't really like the presentation, jumping back and forth from telling the details of the murder and conviction while showing his post- exoneration political activism interchangeably. Also, the use of strange editing techniques (statics, noise, black and white) was inappropriate, annoying and distracting. The animated recreations were also unnecessary, but harmless.
The documentary itself is lacking and the technicalities are really annoying, but the subject matter is interesting enough to keep you through the entire duration of the film.
