It’s a movie starring his nephew in the lead role, approved by his estate, and by all accounts it just feels like an attempt to whitewash him. This is a man who was accused of being a serial child molester, settled with a family out of court for $25 million just to avoid a trial (Chandler), and openly admitted he slept in the same bed as kids while he was an adult (Bashir interview), among other things. I don’t really see what there is to debate.

Anything pointing this out gets backlash on movie-related subreddits, which I find wild. It makes me wonder, if Epstein could sing and dance, would he have gotten a biopic too? Would people be defending him like this?

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    Seriously, watch Leaving Neverland and see what you think. It’s astounding. You will be like

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      Just for giggles, I chose to check the wiki for leaving neverland…

      Safechuck says Jackson eventually replaced him with Brett Barnes; Robson claims he was replaced by the actor Macaulay Culkin, who is two years older, because Jackson preferred prepubescent boys

      Funny, Culkin explicitly says nothing ever happened. Culkin must just be lying though, right? One of the people in that documentary said he was the next in line, so that’s that.

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        He’s interviewed at the end of the documentary. It’s worth it.

        A quick scan of wikipedia is not sufficient.

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          Ok but it’s easy for a documentary to make you go insert shocked gif here if they just lie about things

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          Should I also watch Loose Change because it’s compelling and would leave me flabbergasted if I didn’t do any other research?

          One of the two kids who the documentary follows makes an outrageous claim that we already know is fake based on the word of the person who allegedly experienced it. Just because you enjoyed it doesn’t mean it’s accurate.

          I don’t even have any skin in he game (I don’t like Jackson’s music, personally), but the rhetoric around the man has always been contentious, and not always consistent. I’m not going to waste tons of time on a subject I don’t care about by watching a documentary that I already know includes a major falsehood from one of the primary subjects.

          Honestly, I wasted more of my life on this subject than I wanted just responding here, so duces.

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      Seen it, you are clearly dumb enough to fall for a ton of wishy washy nothing “proof”.