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Originally Posted by CCuster_911
Except I have said before I believe he is innocent.
Lol at all the people thinking because I call the documentary biased I think he is guilty. Not even close to what the word bias means.
Yes, the documentary is biased. It even has an agenda, which is a dirty word among the ignoramuses who don't seem to realize that every work of art has an agenda.
The concept of "objectivity" in documentaries is practically impossible in the first place. Every cut, every camera angle, every musical cue, etc. is inherently subjective. There's been much written about this, and how much responsibility docs have to presenting an "objective" POV.
The filmmakers have acknowledged they were massively influenced by the Paradise Lost series, The Staircase (both told from the perspective of the defense team) as well as presumably Capturing the Friedmans, Murder on a Sunday Morning, The Thin Blue Line, and many others.
Should they have covered the part about Avery's sweat DNA, Brendan's other confessions, some of his darker domestic incidents, etc. Maybe, maybe not. They did include some negative material, and even the most ardent prosecution supporters haven't punched the kind of holes that the dissenters did with Paradise Lost, Michael Moore docs, Serial, etc.
They wanted us to question a process that was used to convict and incarcerate two individuals. And they did so in an honest way. They were not trying to make a larger statement about systemic corruption, though the concerns that might arise from it are nonetheless valid.