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Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013)
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6
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2/15
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"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 her 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 is the phone sex tapes and the explicit pornographic pictures. Oh, how
they ate it up with a 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 good 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 a borderline personality disorder. So, I'm confident
the Arizona jury made the correct judgment.
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.