Buried

Very interesting. I didn't care for Eileen, when she was on the stand and caught in lies, her facial expressions were priceless. It is hard to make an accurate decision because I don't know all the facts....but then neither did the jury. Horrible family, but daddy took her along to kill people?

Never have I been so creeped out by the directors close of of the interviewees eyes, can't understand why they would do this so distracting from the serious topic at hand.

It is a good documentary because it goes back and forth with the evidence, but sadly it does very little to round up a conclusion to educate us. Journalistic investigations could make peoples minds about moral dilemmas, change investigations and legal concepts. But this kind of aproach where nothing is added to what is known, doesnt really help.

The case was unusual and creepy enough, that they didn't have to start by hitting us over the head with OH MY GOD DID THIS REALLY HAPPEN. Like yeah we get what the point is going to be, before it's even ten minutes in. I wish it had more respect for the viewer's intelligence, because given the subject matter, it could have been another Staircase or Brother's Keeper. But unfortunately, it just isn't that good.

Part of the problem is that we barely see any of what actually happened in court before there are voiced-over opinions about it. So this requires very little work, in a way, and doesn't allow us to come to any conclusions of our own before we're already being told what we should be paying attention to.

I might have liked it better if it had taken more time to let us see and hear these people (Eileen, her sisters and her mother) talk more first. But instead they put the memory experts in sort of randomly, closer to the beginning when it just wasn't even really clear why it mattered that much what they had to say.

What a sad and horrible story ! I feel sorry for the little girl who was molested and murdered and for her family. I feel sorry for George Franklin's family. He was a very bad man. However I cannot believe that a jury of twelve convicted him of the murder of the little girl based on the recovered memories 20 year's after the fact by Elaine one of his daughters. Memories by the way that continued to change throughout the legal process.