#devils knot

[garlic-bread-enthusiast]

Just a quick reminder that Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley are still wrongfully convicted murders of three eight year old boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers. 

Unfortunately, the West Memphis PD do not want any new evidence in the case, which could exonerate the three, but claim that it was ‘destroyed in a fire’.

What is so sad is that the three men haven’t got justice. Even more disheartening, the three little boys haven’t either, and more than likely never will.

[dearestloveliestdarcy]

Devil’s Knot (2013) Dir. Atom Egoyan

[kostyaanon]

Film Tag I struggled an inordinate amount with

Tagged by the amazing @mycoolodessaguy thank you very much!!

So the idea is to attach gifs from your ten favourite movies but I don’t have opinions so this was quite hard for me,, I made it though (lies I’m writing this before I’ve tried, if I did then cool cool).

In no particular order:

This is where it gets real hard for me.

^^ isn’t a gif from the movie but there’s no gifs for Goal of the Dead. It’s about zombies and soccer.

Really wanted to add Dumbo but Bambi won.

@nikialekseev @melekseev @hbeloved7 @just-another-eurofan @pinkphoeniixx @mamaopal @jadoremelekseev @babtiya

[firmbum]

Choose the next book I read!! ft. my dogs butt

[oxfordmanners]

Devil’s Knot (2013) directed by Atom Egoyan

I’ll be honest; the movie is very mediocre. I mostly watched it to see Colin Firth with a beard and talk in a reasonable facsimile of a Memphis accent. For that, I suppose it was worth it.

[hereiam-yourrocketqueen]

Has a book ever touched and spoke to your soul so much that it brought you to tears? Well, this one did that to me. This book is called 'Life After Death', it's the autobiography of Damien Echols. Damien is a man who was tried and convicted, along with two others, for a crime he did not commit when he was only nineteen years old. Being deemed as the ringleader he was sentenced to death rowe, and spent eighteen years and seventy-six days of his life in prison, thankfully he has since been released. This book has made me smile, cry, laugh, curse, think, and feel more than anything I've ever read. Ever since watching the Paradise Lost documentaries about his case years ago I've been completely enamored with it. I've researched it extensively looking at it from all angles. I've looked at case files, autopsy reports, read books, and even went so far as to study crime scene photos. It's not something that is easy to explain, but I know in my heart, with every fiber of my being that they didn't do it. Damien, Jason, and, Jessie were easy targets. Damien was accused of being satanic because he wore black, liked metal music, read Stephen King novels, and was interested by things such as the work of Alistair Crowley for example. This infuriates me because it could've been me. I'm interested in a lot of the same stuff as Damien and he reminds me so much of myself, if I'd been in that same place at the same time I could have been a target. The people that claim that Alistair Crowley was satanic don't understand what it was he was about and his since of humor. He was definitely not a satanist. The trials against Damien were basically a witch hunt. It was like the Salem witch trials all over again. Damien is incredibly strong and brave, he's single handedly the most inspirational person I've ever seen. I feel so sad I've finished this book because I could honestly read his words, his wisdom, his views and opinions forever, and never tire of it. Reading this has honestly touched my life in a way nothing else ever has, and changed the way I look at life. It's inspired me endlessly and made me realize the kind of person I wan to be. Damien Echols is a hero to me.❤

[hereticallyeverafter]

Been rereading about the WM3 case because I believe they're completely innocent and it's just aggravating how far the trial got and how people can still say the cops were right and did their job, etc. If their job was harassing kids, sure. But what really gets me- and it should've gotten everyone's attention- was how little evidence the police actually persued. Ignoring the Bojangles guy, how they handled everything they pulled from the scene, all these ignored leads, ignoring the parents as suspects. And there was literally noooooothiiing about the scene that was indicative of ritualistic activity.

I'm just happy Damien didn't let the pressure to conform change him and I'm happy for him that he's found some success, and even after all this time, he's still fighting for vindication and I hope he gets it and I hope someday, somehow, whatever evidence the police dept didn't LOSE, gets tested one day and the real killer/s is/are found.

[dearestloveliestdarcy]

Colin Firth as Ron Lax in Devil’s Knot (2013) Dir. Atom Egoyan