Film: Capturing the Friedman's

[Shuba]

If you haven't heard about this, have a look here
Anybody else seen it?
Its a documentary about a seemingly average upper-middle class family falling apart after the Father and son are accused of raping boys in thier computer classes.
Its told using interviews and a huge collection of home movies filmed by one of the son's. These films are incredible. they keep the camera's rolling while the family turn on each other, alternating between desperate imitations of normality and total despair. They even include the video diary of the oldest son at middle age.
Nobody's ever sure of their guilt and everyone puts a different spin on what happened.
The whole thing is compelling, brilliant and completely fucked up. The best new film I've seen this year.

 

[michael]

i posted links about this story in the documentary thread.

 

[Fried Man]

this movie is disturbing, plus they have the same last name as me so they are ruining my name.........

since they are jewish, stupid people have asked my fam if we are related.........which we are not

 

[AmorRoark]

Me, mentioning it in disturbing movies thread....

Capturing the Freedmans was the documentary that I couldn't remember the title for. Quite disturbing. While my friends found that one of the sons was now the "most popular birthday clown in NYC" funny, I thought it was very very frightening!

 

[Beatlebot]

Just thougt I'd give this a bump.

I thought that this movie was very well made, unbiased and thought provoking. I'd recommend it to anyone.

 

[Mazey]

I grew up in Great Neck , N.Y. at the time and they lived 4 blocks from my sister. Who knew! The film was odd I just couldn't relate to a brother filming the family all the time about things like that.