Allen v. Farrow

Read Cathy Young's "Allen v. Farrow: Intellectually Dishonest Propaganda Meets Emotional Blackmail" and Robert B. Wiede's "Farrow v. Farrow: The Case of the Magical, Disappearing Electric Toy Train Set" about Allen v. Farrow to get the facts. This documentary is dishonest beyond imagination.

A single did he/didn't he incident pored over for 4+ hours, this is the antithesis to 2019's gripping Leaving Neverland. Hands-down one of the most boring docu-series I've ever seen, the one-sided, hypocritical, woke, irrelevant crap it unnecessarily fills considerable time with loses so much sympathy for the Farrows you almost end up supporting Allen just out of spite. Did he do it? Probably. By the end of these four tediously dragged-out episodes, do you care? No.

Woody molesting kids and making it weird next time I watch Annie Hall “What’d I do? What’d I do?!” Yuckers. The people who gave this a reflexive low should probably have their computers searched, guh. I believe Dylan.

Can't remember if they discussed Mia’s Valentines Day card before or after Annie Hall… Whatever your feelings are about this case, which is indeed a complex and weedy one, it is difficult to view this as anything other than an imbalanced, shoddy attempt at procedural; while it never claims to be impartial, its slimy and off-putting sensationalised telling of serious, disputed, criminal events that were never pursued criminally, apparently with the prosecutor’s consent(!) leaves a bad aftertaste.

The proof is in the pudding as far as the effectiveness of Allen's PR machine--I grew up knowing about his relationship with Soon-Yi (which alone was twisted), but didn't know about Dylan. Just absolutely horrible, but also just so familiar. I thought the 4th episode was really well-done in how it put this story in the bigger context, and how it showed what a difference the me too movement has made for individual victims and society as a whole.

It’s odd that his career continues on because people make excuses for him, for art, etc rather than give up seeing him remake the same self-indulgent movie for the 90th time

I already believed Dylan before watching this, but the thing I really liked with this series is how it starts with a famous case and then goes to deconstruct so many power dynamics in the world, the fake dichotomy of he said/ she said, that one bullshit study of a not-psychologist used in the trial that had many women deemed abusive and their kids taken away, the networks of enablers around people of power and so on.

Human weaknesses and sins affect not only regular people, but celebrities and people with power and influence even more so. What are we ready to forgive ? This is not like writing hateful tweet or Louis CK showing his private parts to fans, this is far more serious. For child abuse there is no excuse and forgiveness is not possible. As for the question if Woody really did it - I believe Dylan more than Woody. As for the film itself - it could have been far more better.