Film Yesterday slashed the Sundance film festival, the largest in the united states, latest edition. On the programme were a lot of titles, including ‘Leaving Neverland’, a documentary about Michael Jackson when the King of Pop as a pedophile is portrayed. The film did beforehand raised some dust, and also did at the festival, violent reactions trigger. A lot of viewers left with a shocked feeling to the room.
In the documentary, two alleged victims in the word, that say “definitely bruised” by The King of Pop. It comes to the 36-year-old Australian, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the boy who, in 1987, with the singer in a famous Pepsi commercial. The facts would seem to have played when the boys were 7 and 10 years old. Jackson was fully acquitted of all charges against him were. The two victims were holding together with director Dan Reed is also a question/answer session after the screening.
Furious
The family Jackson was already furious about the release of the documentary. Jackson’s mother Katherine, his children and his brothers and sisters to do everything for its heritage protection and in the meantime, even a GoFundMe action started to raise money for his own documentary, which, according to them, “the real truth is told”.
The police of festival location Park City in the state of Utah, where the film festival takes place, feared also that the premiere is out of hand. In a statement they gave to as a precaution, extra staff have enabled the “in connection with a may protest.”
Troubled reactions
The documentary is the target of controversy. This was shown during and after the presentation, when many of the spectators expressed the serious concerned. “Now a 10 minute break in the four hour documentary. What you thought to know, the content of this documentary is ijzingwekkender than you can ever imagine. And we sit still but in half”, wrote filmjournalist Kevin Fallon of the website The Daily Beast on Twitter.
“We are halfway through the documentary, and I now know that I 400 showers go to take to me a clean feel,” says David Erlich, the filmrecensent of IndieWire. Also, The Los Angeles Times shared a report: “There is an incredible emotional response in the audience. A viewer in the audience shouted out suddenly that as a child he was abused, and that this film is more good for the world than Michael, f*cking Jackson has ever done”.
Staff at the ready
There was, incidentally, staff at the ready for spectators who find it too difficult would get. They had bottles of water and went in a room in conversation with the shocked or aroused viewers.