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?
In lieu of facts, I think most apologists who know the broad strokes of his life tend to address his behavior as the result of the significant abuse he received as a kid. I’m not really familiar with his behavior beyond the highlights, but I don’t know if he was ever accused of having raped any of the kids. I know he generally engaged in very creepy behavior with the kids, and the pedophilia was heavily implied though.
To answer your question, yes, I think it’s a creepy cashgrab at best. I might watch it on a long flight out of curiosity if it’s available, but I don’t forsee seeking it out.
The first accuser…
But that one was weird. The kids parents were divorced and the mom had custody.
So the kid, his siblings, and mom hung out with MJ, and he took them to all types of shit, like award shows, giant concerts, trips all over the world. But not the ex husband, because the family was already split when they met MJ.
Ex husband initially was super pissed, then one day did a 180 and started pushing hard for unsupervised overnight trips that had never happened before. Then the ex-husband (who was a dentist) gave his kid a bunch of laughing gas for a “procedure” and claimed that in that state the child told him of the abuse.
MJ settled because that’s what people did, and the second that happened the floodgates opened.
He was weird as fuck, and any parent that was letting him spend nights unsupervised with their child is a piece of shit…
That doesn’t mean anything bad actually happened tho. There’s no real evidence it did, but it’s impossible to prove it never happened.
The producers did originally included a section about the kiddie thing, but were sued by one of the victims.
Allegedly this prevented them from depicting the victims in any way, and there was an expensive re-shoot to end the plot earlier in the story at the Victory Tour.
That’s a cash grab? He’s been dead for almost 2 decades. They’ve made a film about Steve Jobs before his body got to room temperature.
Something being a cash grab has no relation to how recent the thing it’s about happened… How have you managed to think that’s the case?
Leaving Neverland will erase any doubts you may have. He raped a lot of kids.
That’s being very generous, considering it’s a guileless PR move to normalize pederasty, et al (for the 1%) in the public opinion. 🤬