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Capturing The Friedmans

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C

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Year Released: 2003

Date Reviewed: 8/05/08

Genre: Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

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Synopsis:

 

In the 80's, in the upper-middleclass district of Great Neck, the awarded Professor Arnold Friedman is arrested for possession of some magazines of child pornography. A further investigation of the police discloses that apparently Arnold and his eighteen years old son Jesse molested his young students during their private computer class. Their Jewish family tears apart with the situation and the sentences of Arnold and Jesse.

 

Brian's Rating: C- : The most interesting thing about this movie had nothing to do with the movie.  I found it interesting how the media, although portraying facts the entire time, can so easily manipulate us as viewers into thinking whatever they want, whenever they want.

Documentaries just do not do it for me, but if you like them, then take a shot at this one to dive a little deeper into scandal.

 

The Freak's Rating: B- : I was thoroughly entertained by this one.  Whenever you see an interview on television with a neighbor of a guy who was nuts, they always say "he seemed like such a normal guy".  The film shows footage of the family being completely normal, creating a bit of a bond between the family and the viewer...enough of a bond that when the criminal activity comes out you do question the accuracy.

 

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