After his stormy online exchange with Iman, Gil Reyes proposed to interview him for his movie – for a bonus feature only, as he said – but, as Iman returned the proposition and asked him to be interviewed for the blog, he declined, saying he didn’t want to be interviewed. He also woulsn’t write about his beliefs about the day SMith died. Sure, he is the filmmaker, the interviewer, But Reyes is making a mistake, many Elliott’s fans are wondering about him, an interview would have been very popular in certain circles…
Anyway, Gil did say to Iman a few interesting things, and this is what he firmly believes (I paraphrase): Whether or not Jennifer Chiba knew it would harm or even kill Elliott to remove the knife from his chest, she still did not do anything wrong. According to Gilbert, she may have panicked and since she panicked might have forgotten her training. Trying to explain Gilbert anything is the moral equivalent of explaining to a Christian that Moses couldn’t have lived to be a 1,000 years. It feels better when you stop.
Really?
Beside the gruesomeness of the situation and the fact that it would require some strength to pull a knife stuck deep between the ribs (one of the wounds was around 6 ½ inch deep), a person would necessarily feel guilt and remorse once realizing that through an action ithey, of all people, were fully aware what the results would be, they had precipitated the death of the person they loved most in the world. Say, you removed your sons body from a car crash and the movement lead to his death. Now say you had taken three years in classes telling you precisely not to do that? Should you be placed in court? Should you even be questioned?
Or would you just say, “hey, my bloody hands are clean?”
To put it blunbtly, even if Chiba did not know the result of her stupic action, , she should have felt terribly guilty. Instead she declares to MTV in January 2004 ‘It’s absolutely not my fault. I know that, and people close to Elliott know that’, (a presumptuous statement which was denied by the family shorter after as a matter of fact), then sues the family for $1 million in July 2004, not even a year after it happened.
After getting a Police Investigation he deserved better than, he is now getting a documentary he deserves better than.