I have to be honest, I only gave this review based on the fact that I did not expect the content of this film. I wish there had been a "trigger warning", while the director did warn us about the content being on children point of view of abuse, abuse is a pretty vague word.
I finished the film, wanting to get out of the theatre more than once. I, victim of child abuse, did not want to be reminded about something I spent years trying to forget. I often wonder if my review would be fair parting from this point of view, but I believe I deserved some kind of warning. I also can not justify the director's choice of keeping the graphic footage instead of just implying the ways the children were abused. Dont get me wrong I am a huge fan of Mind hunter and its second season is quite graphic, but the scenes of real children filming this actually haunted me.
Long story short: the movie is beautiful, the story is not.
I finished the film, wanting to get out of the theatre more than once. I, victim of child abuse, did not want to be reminded about something I spent years trying to forget. I often wonder if my review would be fair parting from this point of view, but I believe I deserved some kind of warning. I also can not justify the director's choice of keeping the graphic footage instead of just implying the ways the children were abused. Dont get me wrong I am a huge fan of Mind hunter and its second season is quite graphic, but the scenes of real children filming this actually haunted me.
Long story short: the movie is beautiful, the story is not.