I'm back. I've been really busy since I got a job, so it's been hard finding time to balance everything, but everything is settled, and I'm back to doing what I love, writing articles for you guys :)
For this article, I thought I would talk about something that I've been enjoying a lot lately; documentaries.
My mum is the kind of person that is always watching interesting documentaries, and we always end up having conversations about them. After deciding I want to study Sociology at university, I thought I should start watching things like that to help me to start thinking about society and the way things work more. So I started to watch documentaries, and I found all of them very interesting. I thought I would share a bit about the ones I find particularly interesting with you guys :)
Please let me know if you have seen any of these and let me know if there are any documentaries I should watch!
West Memphis Three
Out of all the documentaries I watched, I think this one had to be the one that I found most interesting. It was also very shocking to see how this happens to so many innocent people in America. It stuns me how murderers are getting away with such hideous crimes and how it's becoming common that people are wrongly accused.
This documentary follows The West Memphis Three, three men (or boys, as they were so young when they were arrested) who were accused of brutally killing three young boys. The accused were Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelly, and James Baldwin. Echols was even sentenced to death. They were accused of killing the three young boys as part of a Satanic ritual. Why were they accused of this? Because they were different to other people. They didn't do the same things everyone else did, and they were from poorer backgrounds. Obviously being different means they must be brutal murderers *insert eye roll here*.
They were released in 2011 after evidence showed that they were not linked to the boys in any way whatsoever. When you watch the documentary, the story of what happened is really surprising regarding some of the marks that were found on the young boys. And the revelation of who actually murdered them is heartbreaking. The thing that struck me most with this documentary is that this always happens to the lower class people. Just like in Making a murderer, these boys were poor, and it disgusts me just what money can let people get away with. Another thing again that disgusts me is how they take advantage of people, in this documentary they did the same thing they did to Brendan Dassey, they manipulated a confession out of someone who wasn't mentally all there. I don't understand how people can get away with this kind of stuff. I highly recommend watching this, it is really, really interesting.
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TalHotBlond
TalHotBlond really got me thinking now. It made me realise that you can't trust people on the internet so easily because you don't know who they really are. You could think you're talking to someone the same age as you, but they could turn out to be some random person who is making up everything you think you know about them.
This documentary looks at the story of three people, a 48-year-old man, a girl who we are led to believe is 18 years old and a man who was murdered. The story starts when 48-year-old Thomas Montgomery starts playing online casino games that also have chat rooms. This is where he meets the user Talhotblond. An 18-year-old girl. As they begin to talk, he realises that she wouldn't want to talk to a 48-year-old man, so he pretends to be a young marine. They go on to have an almost two-year romance. This is until his wife finds out and write a letter telling the girl exactly who he is. Once this had happened, Talhotblond started talking to one of Montgomery's co-workers, and she starts to play with both of them. The co-workers, who were once friends were no longer friends and led to a real life murder. Montgomery murdered his co-worker.
So you may think that this is where the story ends, but it doesn't end there. The most shocking bit comes at the end, and I think this is the most disturbing and frightening part of this whole story. The 18-year-old girl was never the one talking to Montgomery. It was her mother.
I don't want to say too much more because I feel you need to watch it to be able to think about it properly. But this is the documentary that really stuck with me and me question how much trust I put in people who I meet online. This is definitely worth the watch!
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Girlhood
I really enjoyed this one. I always find these types of documentaries interesting when they follow young people who have gotten involved in crime, like the ones where they send kids who have gotten into a lot of trouble to prison for the day to make them realise where they could end up.
This documentary follows two girls in America who are serving time in a Juvenile system and it tells the stories of how they got to where they are. It was interesting to see just how people's backgrounds and things that happen to them can influence the things they do and it makes me wonder that if it wasn't for those circumstances, would they have acted differently? I really recommend watching it :)
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