In the movie ”Leaving Neverland” accused the late superstar for the sexual abuse of two boys in the 1990s. They are now adults, the boys Wade Robson and James Safechuck appears in the documentary and talks about what they faced and how they learned to live with it.
the film was shown for the first time at the american film festival Sundance on Friday, and both the police medics were on the spot in the cinema to take care of potential protests or illness as a result of a lot of emotion in the audience, writes the People.
In the viewer’s shared several in the audience with their feelings in social media.
”We are only halfway into the movie and I already need a shower 400 times to ever feel clean again”, writes Indiewires been a film critic David Ehrlich on Twitter.
The Daily Beasts reporter Kevin Fallon was also taken after a few hours of viewing:
you knew, or knew of, so is the content of this more disturbing than you could have imagined. And we are only half-way”, twitters he.
Biobesökarna searched before they got in to see the movie. Photo: Danny Moloshok
Access Hollywood’s film critic Scott Mantz describes the film as ”shocking, embarrassing and soul-crushing” and the LA Times Gerrick D Kennedy notes that it is ”painful and brutal outrageous” and that his heart is broken.
Kritkernas upset feelings, however, the counter-thrust of Jacksonfans, who angrily went to the defense of his idol and claimed that there is no evidence for the accusations made in the film.
It is not the first time ”Leaving Neverland” is criticized. A representative for Jackson’s estate has in the past called the documentary ”an outrageous and pathetic attempt to exploit and make money of Michael Jackson” and the star’s nephew, Taj Jackson has started a collection to be able to defend her uncle in a own documentary series.
for his part, previously stated that it took great courage from both men to tell and that he did not doubt for a second on their credibility.
Jackson, who died in 2009, has in stages been accused of sexual abuse against boys. 2005 the war he in a much-publicized trial, and more than 20 years earlier was another case out of court. The two men who appear in the documentary have also sued Jackson for abuse, but both cases were rejected in 2017.
