As a documentary this is a weird and strange insight into an isolated life fuelled by movies and music..... or it's not. A tale of a family of brothers, 1 sister, and mum and dad who live on Manhattan Island, New York City, and isolate themselves from society with only the father allowed keys to the front door and any real access to the outside world. The brothers become obsessed with movies, write out entire scripts and re-enact them with very impressive props and homemade costumes. They then discover, when one turns fifteen, that maybe they don't have to be so confined and can venture out alone ( be it dressed in a homemade horror mask ) Whilst I have very little doubt that this is a genuine family I do have doubts that this is a genuine tale. For having lived a life of such social isolation they seem the nicest and most balanced young men, although to be fair society isn't exactly balanced in itself so that's not a great example of why this seems such an unlikely truth. As mentioned before there is a lot that doesn't add up, why live in Manhattan? Why allow the kids such access to media and film when you believe society is corrupt? Why did a SWAT team show up during the documentary when the kids had been playing with prop fire arms for years? And so many more questions...... I have to say that I had doubts within the first 20 minutes as to the authenticity of this documentary. If it is authentic then it's an extraordinary tale, if it's not then I don't see the point. Sadly I think the latter. I found it hard to rate because of this so I gave it a 7 as it's either a real good old story or a hard to discern hoax.
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