Re: Sundance Festival 2019 - Controversial MJ Documentary "Leaving Neverland"
One thing is for sure, his words about how Wade enjoyed it and a fulfilling sexual relationship etc is just SO damn off.
I find Dan's statement to be incredibly disturbing. How could any right-minded individual seriously say that about the abuse of a child? I simply do not believe the statement to be honest. It's designed to damage MJ further by providing a soundbite for the media to quote. Yes, this guy is playing the media for all its worth. He has taken EVERY opportunity to make this as explicit as he possibly can, which plays right into the hands of R&S.
Yes, this Dan Reed fella is a very strange individual.
On the one hand he claims to have a documentary that exposes "the truth" but on the other he doesn't appear to care how accurate his film is, which is rather foolish if he cares about his own reputation.
By his own admission he made some attempt to research the wider picture by speaking to somebody involved in the prosecution side of the Chandler case, but he decided to focus on R&S almost exclusively. Why do that? I can only imagine it's because he realised that looking broader would highlight the inherent weakness in the story he wanted to tell. So I make a mental leap that he must have made a conscious decision at some point to create an overtly negative and biased documentary. One that supports his agenda regardless of what anybody has to say that might contradict that.
There are hints in the film that others such as Mac Culkin were abused, but NO interviews with them. Others haven't ever been contacted for their participation, such as Brett and Frank C.
As far as I know the film does not include a single pro-MJ guest and it makes virtually no effort to PROVE anything that R&S say and it almost completely avoids the detail around what they had previously claimed about MJ being innocent, except a brief statement that they did indeed previously say that hadn't been abused. The smallest of token gestures to appear more neutral?
A serious piece of investigative journalism would have tackled their about-turn in some detail, together with quotes from legal documents etc.
A serious documentary would have interviewed people like Mac, Brett, T Mez. Hell, there have seen some horrendously biased shows that do at least include T Mez.
All in all it's clear the agenda is very much to expose MJ as a pedo at all costs. This of course fits with R&S previous tactics of using the media to aid their civil case against the Estate.
The very disturbing thing is that almost everybody in the media and in the world generally appears to be willing to soak up any allegations as factual without proof. Without question. The media of course are major players in this as they're in a position to provide some accurate, balanced coverage and they are not doing so.