Making A Murderer Movie Analysis

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The original Netflix series Making a Murderer is a ten-episode series that was written and directed by Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi. The series Making a Murderer is a documentary series of a person who was wrongly convicted of a murderer that happed eleven years ago in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. The documentary was released by Netflix in the United States on December 18, 2015. The film location is in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Moira Demos are an American filmmaker, editor, and producer (IMDB). Laura Ricciardi was a lawyer before working in the film industry (IMDB). They both rose to fame for their documentary and it took ten years to produce. In the documentary, there are many important characters that bring life to the film, but the film is mostly set around one person named Steven Avery. The film Making a Murderer is an excellent film that shows how the justice system is corrupted.
In the documentary Making a Murderer, Steven Avery and his family own a salvage yard in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin where his family lived on for many years. When Steven Avery was younger, he was a trouble maker and one day he ran his cousin, Sandra Morris off the road because she spread rumors about him. Sandra Morris is married to a sheriff officer in Manitowoc County and got Avery arrested. Many people from Manitowoc County abhor the Avery
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The documentary was enjoyable and it showed how the justice system can be corrupted with too much power. Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi were excellent directors by choosing a great story to portray in a documentary to explain what happens when the police are main justice system in small towns. The wrongful convicted of Avery effected his family by putting all their money to get Avery release from prison and almost losing their salvage yard. It made a person feel sympathy for Avery’s family struggling through a horrific

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