Mez: Lifetime's Dot-Buster Movie

I managed to catch this presentation last night
and have jotted down some of my initial reactions . . .

The Lifetime Cable TV Channel's presentation about The Meredith Homicide in Perugia started disingenuously by telling the audience that there are two sides to every story. Actually, there are at least a dozen sides to this story, since each and every one whose life this tragedy directly touched brought away from it their unique side to the story. Filomena, the former cottage roommate, for example, has her own side of this story, and it is probably one that will haunt her for many years to come.

In the Fall of 2007, Meredith Kercher, an Anglo-Indian student from Leeds University, who was in Perugia to advance her European Studies as an Erasmus Scholar, was brutally attacked by a gang of youths stoned on drugs and engaged in a "wilding" episode.

Meredith Kercher was not White. She was alone in the cottage and believed she was among friends. She was mistaken, because The Dot-Busters were about to raid Perugia. But this movie is not her story.

The makers of this movie have twisted The Meredith Kercher Homicide into someone else's story. The throughline POV of this movie is that of Edda Mellas, because the Dot-Busters are marauders who have stolen even this crime from its victim. Meredith Kercher was only an ephemeral and insignificant prop in their much more important lives.

And the tipoff to all this was casting a White European gal as Meredith Kercher. Would you find it credible if the movie makers had cast a White Swedish man to play Patrick Lumumba? If this had been an honest movie, an Indian actress would have been assigned to play Meredith Kercher.

But this was not an honest movie. It was a two hour dramatization coupled with an hour of cunning propaganda worthy of The Manchurian Candidate. The three-hour (!) package of this presentation was a highly manipulative and ruthlessly exploitive product to cover up a Racist murder.

And you get a Free Pass on the first Indian victim from the American Press, which is simply repeating their non-performance in the previous Dot-Buster case, because they are running on Auto-Pilot and slavishly dependent on handouts from unscrupulous Hollywood Press Agents who throw them a few crumbs once in while. Without the handouts, many of them are brain-dead.

The mother was chosen as the protagonist of this dramatization so that millions of American mothers would identify with her. After all, many American mothers send their daughters away to college, but never expect their daughters to join a marauding gang of murderous
Dot-Busters.

During the three-hour ordeal of this presentation, did they get anything else blatantly wrong? Just off the top of my head, yes, they did. They claimed that it was possible for an intruder to gain entry to the cottage via the second story bedroom window known as Filomena's window. As far as I know: it was not possible.

There was nothing entertaining about this presentation. In the third hour, a female voice-over was accompanied by very loud, melodramatic, intrusive and obnoxious music. The music gave me a headache.

And they conveyed to us the very strong impression that they fully intend to turn this telemovie into an entire industry like an ongoing, never-ending Reality TV Series until they liberate Amanda Knox.

This movie should have remained
in the vault. Its audience was mugged.

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