Seitz: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Offers Only a Fleeting Sense of Relief for the West Memphis Three (New York Magazine)
By all rights, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s _Paradise__ Lost 3:
Purgatory _(HBO, 9 p.m. Eastern) should feel more triumphant than it does. It
is, after all, about the release of the West Memphis Three, men who were
imprisoned — wrongly, it now seems — for murdering and mutilating three
young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, nearly two decades ago. When convicted
killers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelly, Jr. were sentenced
back in 1993, they were mere boys themselves, high school kids with pimply
skin and uncertain voices.
Thanks in large part to the efforts of Free the West Memphis Three, a legal
defense fund, the once seemingly impregnable case against them fell apart,
exposed as circumstantial and shoddy and tainted by ineptitude and
bureaucratic self-protection. When Berlinger and Sinofsky visited West Memphis
in 1996′s _Paradise Lost_, it was the story of a court case, pure and simple,
and the filmmakers viewed it with an ominous and slightly clinical detachment.
By the time they made their follow-up, 2000′s _Paradise Lost 2: Revelations_,
the trio were already starting to seem like victims of a witch hunt. When
they’re finally let go at the end of …
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