There's another tonal problem toward the end of West of Memphis. The film's final scenes linger on triumphant images of Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley, free at last and reunited with their families. But then we get slow-motion images of birds in flight and earnest acoustic music from Eddie Vedder. It's too broad a send-off for a film otherwise so focused in on the sad and complicated specifics, including the fact that their plea agreement with the state prevents them from seeking damages.
I kept thinking about those three 8-year-old boys, murdered in the woods a few hundred yards from their homes, with the killer still at large due to a system that failed them. Echols delivers a similar sentiment in a jailhouse interview just before his release, after 18 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit: "The person who killed those three kids is still out there on the streets. That should be the main priority."
There's another tonal problem toward the end of West of Memphis. The film's final scenes linger on triumphant images of Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley, free at last and reunited with their families. But then we get slow-motion images of birds in flight and earnest acoustic music from Eddie Vedder. It's too broad a send-off for a film otherwise so focused in on the sad and complicated specifics, including the fact that their plea agreement with the state prevents them from seeking damages.I kept thinking about those three 8-year-old boys, murdered in the woods a few hundred yards from their homes, with the killer still at large due to a system that failed them. Echols delivers a similar sentiment in a jailhouse interview just before his release, after 18 years behind bars for a crime he didn't commit: "The person who killed those three kids is still out there on the streets. That should be the main priority."
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