I believe that Amanda Knox has important things to say about the matter of being a public figure. I don't want to trivialize her situation, but this type of "fame" has run rampant in the age of social media. People are thrust into the public eye; it could be in the form of a meme, a video, a tweet, etc. Once someone goes viral, you can't easily put the cork back on the bottle, so to speak. Their private lives all of a sudden become public, and once you're a public figure, everything about you is fair game to the media. We consider that celebrities chose to be in the public eye, so the dissection of their lives is considered okay. At what point does that distinction happen? Does merely creating something that a mass audience enjoys mean that they must give up their privacy?

I hadn't heard of Amanda Knox before reading this article. I don't even think I'm aware of Stillwater, the film that she talks about throughout the article that is based on her story. This reminds me of other people that have had their lives turned into Hollywood movies. Even if they are considered "feel-good" movies, like The Blindside the people depicted often aren't pleased with how they are portrayed. The main problem with the dramatization of normal people's lives, is that the viewers will believe that it's how it truly happened. On some level, we all know that Hollywood blows things out of proportion. However, we love a "based on a true story" or documentary style film about "true events." More recently I've seen these types of shows become more popular, from "Inventing Anna" to "The Dropout." These stories are about real people, and we only get the dramatized version. Even if these people are "bad" people, they don't get to have their side heard. I've seen people complain about glamorizing certain events, but the people portrayed more than likely had no say in the matter.