Surviving Sinaga (2020) User Reviews

No budget? No talent?

[pqvist · 1/10 · 25 March 2022]

Surviving Sinaga is a super shallow documentary. It could easily have been executed within 10 minutes of total running time.

• The research seems close to non-existing.

• The photo is monotonous with same/similar camera patterns and repeating clips throughout the film.

• The editing is at junior high school standard.

• The audio mixing is very bad with music mixed at way to high level.

A super interesting subject. Extremely lousy execution.

I suspect that the 10/9/8 ratings come from the crew?

Frightening and compelling

[archieeverist · 9/10 · 21 May 2023]

Watched this documentary recently and found the story dark and frightening, with new gripping details the whole way through. The interviews are shot very nicely and there's a lot of information in the film I hadn't seen before. In a lot of ways this is a typical true crime documentary like you'd see on Netflix but the inclusion of the implications of sexual abuse for often underrepresented male survivors is an interesting and important addition.

It's a great documentary, well edited and put together and a compelling story backed up by expert interviews and analysis. Dark and sometimes uncomfortable but definitely worth a watch!