The center of attention, of course, is Arnold Friedman, a pedophile whose personal issues create a firestorm that destroys his own life, but more tragically, the lives of his children. Documentaries come with points of view. The police, prompted by the postal inspectors, obtain a search warrant and find a stash of porno magazines hidden behind the piano in the basement, and some child porno games on his computer.
Don't have an account? In the 80's, in the upper-middle-class district of Great Neck, the awarded Professor Arnold Friedman is arrested for possession of some magazines of child pornography. Riveting, but what are we not being told? Outstanding documentary, which demonstrates how quickly life can fall apart for anyone. "Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" Therefore, I am not going to say whether or not I think Arnold & Jesse Friedman were really guilty of the crimes they were convicted of. I felt like major parts of the case were left out, especially concerning Jesse. | Will we ever stop the witch-hunts? But 16 counts of sodomy and no physical evidence? Capturing the Friedmans: 4/10: Child Molestation, family dysfunction, mass hysteria, homosexuality, and clowns: Where do I sign up. All rights reserved. While with any number of... documentaries one can happily say "wait until it turns up on the small screen", with Capturing the Friedmans it is well worth sitting in the dark to find out the extent to which you think you are being deliberately kept there. He knew that his own guilt and his own perversions were not only convicting him, but they were putting his family in danger and they were the ones in trial. I would highly recommend this film to anyone who enjoys documentaries. I don't think that Jesse Friedman did anything nor was he abused by his father. Capturing the Friedmans resonates in multiple ways, posing questions about truth, evidence, storytelling, and the improprieties of legal systems.
Now, I am no film critic, nevertheless, I have studied documentary film making, and as a historian I must warn those that view this film that the documentarian's methodology is a bit sketchy. So Much Denial and Such a Busted Legal System, Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2019. A complicated story from the late 1980s when mass hysteria about child abuse was raging throughout the country. Capturing the Friedmans is an extraordinary documentary about a family collapsing, when the otherwise respectable Arnold Friedman is discovered in possession of child-pornography. User Ratings I am sure that Arnold may have played out his fantasies in his head and possibly with one or two children, but I do not think he made any advances against or even harmed his sons. Arnold Friedman as it turned out was into kiddie porn and he got busted and then led to a series of accusations made against him by his students. We watch this sad, sad story of the devolution of a family. "It's a combination of different versions of different stories", says first-time director Andrew Jarecki, who assembled video footage filmed by eldest son David, news accounts, still photos, and his own original material, and turned it into one of the most powerful films of the year. and the Terms and Policies, My personal view is now that the film maker was definitely biased, the comments he makes in the documentary and the interviews he presents were carefully selected, he tries to show Jesse as an innocent person trapped in this scandal, paying for his father's ('minor') sins and omits loads of details about the evidence used to incarcerate him AND Arnold. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In 1984 a seemingly normal, middleclass Jewish family is ripped apart by allegations of child abuse. The person I felt the most sorry for was their mother. It would make anyone with common sense think that he did something terrible to his sons and they were lashing out at their mother because she did prevent or stop it from happening. Not my cup of tea, a weird, clueless family in which I have nothing in common and never will , fighting with each other about bad sex for mom & dad, as spoken by mom, then dad, and the possible molestation by Dad & sons of the neighborhood boys .. .I don't think I watched to conclusion. Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2018. For real.
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