Amanda Knox Responds to Matt Damon Movie ‘Stillwater’

Amanda Knox doesn’t appear thrilled about Matt Damon’s new film, Stillwater, which is alleged to be impressed by her life. In response to Deadline, the movie “facilities on an American oil-rig roughneck (Damon) from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to go to his estranged daughter (Abigail Breslin), in jail for a homicide she claims she didn’t commit. Confronted with language limitations, cultural variations and an advanced authorized system, he builds a brand new life for himself in France as he makes it his private mission to exonerate her.”

I imply…yeah. Undoubtedly sounds prefer it’s primarily based on Amanda Knox, who took it to Medium and Twitter with a prolonged assertion/essay accusing the movie of profiting off her with out her consent.

“Does my identify belong to me?” Amanda wrote. “Does my face? What about my life? My story? Why is my identify used to discuss with occasions I had no hand in? I return to those questions as a result of others proceed to revenue off my identify, face, and story with out my consent. Most just lately, the movie Stillwater.”

She continued, “This new movie by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is ‘loosely primarily based’ or ‘straight impressed by’ the ‘Amanda Knox saga,’ as Vanity Fair put it in a for-profit article selling a for-profit movie, neither of which I’m affiliated with. I wish to pause proper right here on that phrase: ‘the Amanda Knox saga.’ What does that discuss with? Does it discuss with something I did? No. It refers back to the occasions that resulted from the homicide of Meredith Kercher by a burglar named Rudy Guede. It refers back to the shoddy police work, prosecutorial tunnel imaginative and prescient, and refusal to confess their errors that led the Italian authorities to wrongfully convict me, twice.”

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Amanda went on to query how fictionalized occasions primarily based on her might impression her actual life.

“By fictionalizing away my innocence, my complete lack of involvement, by erasing the position of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces a picture of me as a responsible and untrustworthy individual. And with Matt Damon’s star energy, each are positive to revenue handsomely off of this fictionalization of ‘the Amanda Knox saga’ that’s positive to go away loads of viewers questioning, ‘Possibly the real-life Amanda was concerned by some means.'”

She ended the piece writing, “I’ve not been allowed to return to the relative anonymity I had earlier than Perugia. My solely possibility is to sit down idly by whereas others proceed to distort my character, or struggle to revive my good fame that was wrongfully destroyed.It’s an uphill battle. I in all probability gained’t succeed. However I’ve been right here earlier than. I do know what it’s like going through unimaginable odds.”

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