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Great documentary but ?

posted 8 years ago by BirdmanT7
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I just watched this great documentary on OJ, it was probably the most prolific coverage of OJ's past and very informative. However, I also felt it left a lot of stuff out, like people they could have interviewed such as his family. Two things happened when OJ met Nicole, he ended his football career and he got married to her shortly after, then he entered into the Hollywood world of movies, celebrities, parties and DRUGS. The Drugs was the big elephant in the room that this film didn't really get into. OJ was well known to be heavy into Cocaine and so was Nicole. His business involvement with Kardashian was also just ignored. Why was Nicole's portrayed as this fallen princess?. They didn't really interview any of OJ's kids to get a perspective about his anger, but mostly his so-called friends or people who use to be his friends. Robert Shapiro also was not in this either, only old coverage. To interview only two jurors again just seemed kind of short on understanding other people's views on the verdict.

I think the central theme of this documentary about race in America is what I liked the most. You get a better understanding that how the Rodney King verdict effect the OJ's trial. I lived through the Rodney King riot and the OJ trial and watch the media circus that was all around us every day; this film started to show us how a loved football player who in the middle of 60's managed to brake through the race barrier through his talents in sports, yet that same White America that loved him came to also hate him and his trial created a race tensions in the entire country. It really makes you wonder have things really changed since the OJ simpson trial?

[–] snowleopard 8 years ago

My suspicion is that a lot of those people didn't want to be interviewed, or have anything to do with the story.

I agree they could have shed some light on drug use, which may have been at an apex across all of society, during many of those years you mention.

Mike Gilbert said it well at one point after the trial, warning OJ to be very careful, because white America would "zip you up in your n***er suit" faster than you know it.

[–] BirdmanT7 8 years ago

My suspicion is that a lot of those people didn't want to be interviewed, or have anything to do with the story.

I agree they could have shed some light on drug use, which may have been at an apex across all of society, during many of those years you mention.

Mike Gilbert said it well at one point after the trial, warning OJ to be very careful, because white America would "zip you up in your n***er suit" faster than you know it.

I agree I also felt that some of those people didn't want to be interviewed, but they are also some of them like "Marcia Clark" and "Mark Fuhrman" who are constantly dying to be on some talk show about this OJ trial. To me Marcia Clark is just disgusting that here she was a public servant working at the District Attorney's office and she got seduced by the media circus that polluted the trial. Yet right after the trial she joined the very thing that she complained about, she got a 3 Million $ book deal, became part of ET and God knows how many talk shows she got on and got paid each time she was including as recent as this film and anything that pops up on OJ. She is now part of the Hollywood celebrities, just look at her pictures with celebs on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1133849/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10

What is the difference between her and someone like Kato kaelin?..whom she called an opportunist.

As far Mike Gilbert, I think he is another person who cashed in on OJ as much as he could, he also was part of the what lead to OJ's demise in Vegas. Once OJ got arrested and his Cash Cow was gone, now he is singing a different tune. He actually is what he says he is the "white America", that would "zip you up in your n***er suit" faster than you know it." I think many people who were around OJ knew he was guilty, they just didn't want to voice their opinion, unlike Ron Shipp, who did, because they also knew OJ is a merchandise and something to cash in on. Hence, whatever Mike Gilbert says now has very little value to me about OJ, he could have left OJ a long time ago.