Knox has maintained that since the fundamentals of the story are incredibly close to her own experience, the fact that the American student ends up being involved in the murder makes her appear guilty by association.
"I would love nothing more than for people to refer to the events in Perugia as 'The murder of Meredith Kercher by Rudy Guede,' which would place me as the peripheral figure I should have been, the innocent roommate," Knox wrote in an essay published on Medium about the film.
"By fictionalizing away my innocence, my total lack of involvement, by erasing the role of the authorities in my wrongful conviction, McCarthy reinforces an image of me as a guilty and untrustworthy person," she continued.
Knox has struggled for years to shake the public's belief that she was involved in Kercher's death. In fact, a majority of Brits believe she was involved in the murder, despite her exoneration, the fact that false confessions are surprisingly common, and that there was no credible evidence tying her to the crime.
"This fictionalization of 'the Amanda Knox saga' ... is sure to leave plenty of viewers wondering, 'Maybe the real-life Amanda was involved somehow,'" Knox added in one of her concluding critiques about the movie — and the issue of its similarities to her life.
