Originally Posted by wrtie
I binge watched all five episodes last night (about 6 at night until 4 in the morning). It is worth a binge, watching it at night, if you can start early enough to finish and still get some sleep. So massive of a story, that you cannot even start talking about it without risking misleading someone about what it is about. Great documentary.
With that being said, since there are literally so many takes on this, I want to mention something that won't be mentioned a lot, and that is the moment that led to the actual killings. I believe it was in the last episode (5) that they talked about the book that OJ participated it that was called If I Did It. There was a huge firestorm when it was about to be published and the book was pulled, but then the Goldman family got the rights to it, and it was actually released.
Now, I haven't done a ton of research on this, but OJ had mentioned either in the book, or to someone else (discussed in this episode) that if Nicole hadn't come out/come to the door with a knife, she wouldn't have been dead. Now, they did a reasonably detailed account of the Keith Blomsavich (sp)) situation, where OJ had been watching Nicole give oral sex to Keith in Nicole's condo before the murders (week or weeks before?). I think that it is likely that OJ went to spy on her before his flight, with no intention of killing her. In the documentary, they stated that the went to the kids' recital that day, then was NOT invited to dinner with everyone. The dinner, of course, was at Mezzaluna, which Keith Blomsavich managed. It was also stated that OJ also called Paula Barbierri that night, but she was ducking his calls, or at least not answering. And then you have the known fact that Nicole had been rubbing her fling with Marcus Allen in OJ's face (or at least not hiding the fact). A friend of Nicole's (Greer?) had even given a crazy statement in the doc about Marcus being a bigger and better OJ, and when he said bigger, she hung on to that and gave a smile that was like a wink (I'm betting money that she was talking about Marcus Allen's penis size). If you see her mention that, you will likely agree. So, OJ was losing everything, getting humiliated in public, and he was out on the island all by himself.
He may have gone to Nicole's condo to spy on her, and maybe she noticed him and came to the door...with a knife. Maybe he wanted to talk to her one more time and to reconcile, so maybe he knocked on the door. But Nicole, knowing that this time there would be no reconciliation, took a knife to the door. OJ likely snapped and then went into overkill in the frenzy. Then Ron Goldman shows up with Nicole's mother's glasses that were left at the restaurant. It is possible that Ron and Nicole were also having an affair, but not sure if anyone has stated that OJ was aware. In any event, the story is so massive that talking about this risks misleading someone who hasn't watched it, that my little take is what the doc is about, but I think that there is little chance that OJ went there to kill. He either went to spy, to try to reconcile, or even to confront, but not to kill. If there was a video tape of that whole episode out there, I would want to know those facts more than the Kennedy assassination.
This documentary must be watched if you have any interest in the case, and the multiple dynamics involved. I think with the recent miniseries on FX, that someone could get the gist of it, by reading discussions about it, but OJ Made In America is so strong that if you are reading this thread you ought to consume it all now. Tremendous.
