I have just seen this movie in the Sao Paulo Movie Festival. I don't know why the movie didn't touch me at all. After the session was ended, a question came to my mind: `so what? that's their business, not mine!'.
The movie sometimes takes you to a direction where you presume the Friedmans are in fact guilty. Sometimes it takes you to the opposite side. The point is: so much it was said about the `disturbing life and rotten secrets' beneath that apparently normal upper middle class family. But it my view, there was nothing wrong with them (obviously not considering the supposedly father's taste for child molestation). OK, every family has its problems, its arguments and its bed moments. But the Friedman's looked a normal and very close family for me: the love among brothers, the respect for the father, a passive mother.
It is like watching `A Cry in The Dark' with Meryl Streep: scandals, hysteria, Press pressure, accusations with doubtful evidences (the statement of the supposedly molested victim is unconvincing), but you won't have the charismatic characters of that film (except David, the elder brother, who seems to be the most affectionate son). 6/10.
The movie sometimes takes you to a direction where you presume the Friedmans are in fact guilty. Sometimes it takes you to the opposite side. The point is: so much it was said about the `disturbing life and rotten secrets' beneath that apparently normal upper middle class family. But it my view, there was nothing wrong with them (obviously not considering the supposedly father's taste for child molestation). OK, every family has its problems, its arguments and its bed moments. But the Friedman's looked a normal and very close family for me: the love among brothers, the respect for the father, a passive mother.
It is like watching `A Cry in The Dark' with Meryl Streep: scandals, hysteria, Press pressure, accusations with doubtful evidences (the statement of the supposedly molested victim is unconvincing), but you won't have the charismatic characters of that film (except David, the elder brother, who seems to be the most affectionate son). 6/10.