Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret

The 1997 film "Fatal Attraction" was nominated for 6 Academy Awards. This has been called the real life version for the 21st Century; sadly as a TV film it can't win an Oscar, even more sadly is the fact that it "is" the real life version. It probably wouldn't in any case because in spite of the excellent portrayal of "femme fatale" Arias by Tania Raymonde, like "To Catch A Killer" (about John Gacy) this was a film that was made with a higher purpose than mere entertainment.

Although Jodi Arias was convicted of the murder of Travis Alexander only last year, it cannot be said to have been made entirely in indecent haste because the crime happened in June 2008, but it was released only a month after her conviction.

The dialogue aims for realism rather than dramatic effect; the line "dildo with a heartbeat" was in fact used by Travis. As undoubtedly was Jodi's line "delete it and it's gone forever", except that it wasn't. Did she really expect to get away with murder?

She was indeed his dirty little secret, and he could have treated her better, but did a man who had never so much as slapped his lover deserve to die at her hands like this?

The only charge that may be made against this film – apart from the above one of indecent haste – is that it is bad taste to portray a real and recent murder so graphically. Far worse though was the release of the actual crime scene photographs, which could have been avoided even for a trial broadcast live on the Internet. In the UK this would not have been allowed, and Travis would at least have been granted dignity in death.

I understand the negative reaction to the portrayal of the victim. He was brutally murdered and Jodi said very hurtful words to his family at the trial but this movie was trying to address the relationship before that jarring event.

The writers were depicting a relationship where the couples annihilate each other. Had Travis never met Jodi, he would have married a nice Mormon girl and had a normal life and Jodi might have had more conventional relationships. But together they both needed and consumed each other. I don't know if this is true to real life but it made for a great LFM movie.

She wanted both an intense sexual and stable relationship, she was drawn to his self-confidence and moral upbringing. He wanted to maintain his standing in the Mormon Community but craved her intense sexuality like a Heroin addict. Was he using her? There was some ambiguity there. It's human nature to want to choose a side but I found myself cheering for them and cringing when it turned bad.

A good example of this dynamic was the barbecue, she really tried to fit in but you see her insecurity leading to a possessiveness and his peer's disapproval behind their smiles. The sexual chemistry between the two actors was very convincing. Tania Raymonde was great to watch.

I for one never followed the real life Jodi Arias murder trial, because it always tied up HLN during the day so I never got to see any of the cute female news anchors on the network! No just kidding I'm not much into real life trials, anyway when a movie is brought to life about a shocking real life drama I'm in for a watch. And seeing that they would be plenty of eye candy in the form of Tania Raymonde made me a numerous watcher of this Lifetime TV movie. Boy if the real Jodi Arias looked this beautiful more people would have watched the real life trial! Tania Raymonde rocked with her performance her turn was cold and obsessive, and jealous possessive like a little devil. Yet the many scenes of Tania in those many sexy colored bras and panties was sexy it made the film thrilling to watch! Anyway starting in 2006 when Jodi(Raymonde)meets Travis at a motivation convention in Las Vegas, a sparkle is in the air. And upon a moment of hotel seduction where Jodi(Raymonde's such hot body) sports a green strapless bra with a lap dance showed that this was one wild push the limit get her way kind of girl! Yet from the get go Jodi showed signs of being jealous, and very possessive with being upset when another woman looked Travis's way she didn't even want any friends for him. The relationship was based on their hot and wild sex sessions that involved nude photos, online porn and of course Jodi wearing very sexy lingerie. This California girl was rocking the world of Travis now in his home state of Arizona.

Thru it all it proves that without real love the sex and lust will fail in the end as the obsession and jealous like possessive behavior of a wicked woman leads to tragic ends for all involved, a blood death and a life sentence as passion kills and dies with the wrong person and when no love is around it's doomed. Still the performance of Tania Raymonde is so hot and sexy she's one actress on the rise.

Oh my goodness this was so cringe and poorly written. The piece feels like a student film and there's no sensitivity or skill to the writing and direction of scenes and how they play. Characters are not individuals, you can hear the same voice from the writers each time. The dialogue sounds so on the nose and cliche. The music plays awfully and feels like it was pulled from a royalty free library and placed carelessly - it sounds like The Bold & The Beautiful. The actors had potential but really needed a competent script and competent director which sadly they had neither. The cinematography isn't terrible, visually it looks passable, but the shot selection is so boring and vanilla. The subject of sexuality isn't treated in a sensitive, appropriate or clever way, feeling more like the writers idealised fantasy. The dialogue is so poor it taints the film with comedy, the bad kind. Sadly, there is no depth or substance here. It feels and plays like a rough 1st Draft of a script that needs some serious polishing, though I'm not sure the filmmakers (Writers and Director) carried the skill or taste to see it through or give it improvement.

By dirty I mean the director and producer expect us to sit around watching this slut type prance around making off she's a winner. WRONG. She's not that terrific looking, too much hair, no body to lure anyone with and has this pouty mouth (like her lower jaw extends her upper.) Let's not talk of the plot as there are so many similar ones of the past and so much better. Like the leading vamp could act in those. This one just poses like she thinks all men are attracted to her looks. AGAIN WRONG.

You can also predict she will kill all those in her way. The same as before. I just get tired of looking at her with her dipity-do hair style. So, in summing this trash up, and I won't mention names to protect the rest of the unfortunate cast, this is a horrendous film with a bad leading lady, a stupid plot and not for any seeing eyes to sit through. Amen.