Alias Grace - 2CDmp3

THE MARK OF A MURDERESS IS A STIGMA. HAS THE LAW UNJUSTLY TURNED AGAINST HER? In old Canada, the year is 1859 and Irish maid Grace Marks has been imprisoned for sixteen years for the murder of her master and his lively housekeeper. The court concluded that Grace killed both of them while still a girl and until her arrest, she displayed extraordinary cold-bloodedness. Because her court-appointed lawyer advised her to feign insanity, she escaped the gallows and got off with a 'mere' life sentence, even though she may not have committed any crime. Who is the victim here? This is what a passionate supporter of the emerging field of psychiatry, Dr. Simon Jordan, intends to uncover at the behest of a charitable society. He begins visiting the convicted woman to get her to speak - of course under the strictest Victorian measures. The mirror held up to this ancient Canadian judicial drama allows us, thanks to the world-class author, to learn much about the convicted, the era, ourselves, and the nature of human truth. After all, we are always and everywhere 'what we remember, but also what we forget.' Based on the novel, Netflix produced an acclaimed television series in 2017 starring Sarah Gadon (A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, Annihilation) and Anna Paquin (The Piano, X-Men, True Blood) in the lead roles.