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Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013)
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6
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2/15
2/15:
"I am going to tie you to a tree," declares Travis Alexander, "and put it in your ass all the way."
"Oh, my god. That is so debasing, but I like it," Jodi Arias responds. And the rest is history, thanks to the
idiots of HLN. If not for them, Jodi Arias' case would've never appeared in the limelight.
There's nothing remarkable about the crime. It's about a stalker who was embroiled in jealousy and just
snapped one day before stabbing her former lover 27 times, slitting his throat, and posthumously shooting him
once in the head.
What did capture the media's attention about the case was the phone sex tapes and the explicit pornographic
pictures. Oh, how they ate it up with voracious appetite. Hence, a film had to be made:
Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret. Although I superficially followed the case but only wanted to hear the
verdict and watch Jodi Arias' reaction, I had no clear idea of how the crime happened. So, the movie provides
a decent re-enactment. Other than that, it's your basic Lifetime Movie of the Week.
It sucks that the truth has to be distorted to make the victim appear as a good, pious Mormon because Travis
was anything but. In reality, he was a hypocrite who manipulated and used Jodi Arias for his entertainment and
didn't practice what he preached. On the other hand, she's definitely mentally ill and sociopathic with
borderline personality disorder. So, I'm confident the Arizona jury made the correct decision.
All in all, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret is an exploitative piece of work about a convicted killer
who has thankfully faded away into oblivion.