brianna

I rented this movie last night (because i'm a complete slut for documentaries) and found it really interested. has anyone else here seen it?

The obvious questions to ask is: Did they do it? I think probably not -- I've read a lot about the accusation of satanism that were flying around at the same time and how children were subject to suggestive questioning and got caught up in the mass hysteria of their community and I suspect the Friedman case was a similar situation. Given the father's admissions of molesting other children one can hardly feel bad for him, though i think the conviction of the son verged on tragic.

I found it incredibly interesting that the family continues filming themselves throughout the whole ordeal -- it seems almost morbid the way the sons film their parents fighting over the molestation charges. It's also shocking that the older son could so easily turn on his mother -- while she didn't seem like the most loving person I think she was still the victim of her husband -- just like her sons and the children that he admits to molesting.

Cynthetiq

hmmmph... it's interesting since I lived in the area that this happened. It still makes news every so often.

Its on my list of DVD's which grows longer every day.

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Sleepyjack

This recently came out here in Australia ( i think) and i am definitely interested in seeing it. Although most of the mainstream bourgeois cinemas (Hoyts, greater union) will not be playing it, so i'll have to got to a specialist/artsy cinema to see it, which eqauls longer travel time

Although, it's out on DVD already? we're getting srewed pretty nicely

Booray

I thought the documentary was VERY well done. The DVD has a whole second disc of extra footage as well. I think that the father was wrongly accused in this instance, but he definitely had problems in the past and was still in possession of child pornography. It's a shame his son was caught up in all of the allegations when it looks like they didn't commit the crimes that are alleged to have happened in the house.

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