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wow what a great documentary, not very talked about.

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An unflinching and human look at family dynamics and inter generational abuse.

I really appreciate the filmmaker’s willingness to have hard conversations with everyone from the main perpetrator (her grandfather) to complicit family members, family victims, and nonfamily victims. She showed the abuser as a human but deeply flawed and unrepentant person. She also holds others accountable for enabling abuse without demonizing them, which sheds light on how abuse happens and is perpetuated.

Disturbing topic but really insightful approach.

Also, as insinuated by the doc—enough of abuse enablers saying “You have to move forward,” “you can’t change the past,” “you have to forgive.” Any or all of those might be true but they’re personal decisions for the victims to make and shouldn’t be used as loopholes for accountability.