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Capturing The Friedmans (2003)

In my opinion, the best documentary ever made: the true-life story of a schoolteacher back in the 1980s accused of sexual abuse of his students, and the fall-out of those accusations, not only on him but his wife and young sons, all caught on home-videotape from the time. Capturing The Friedmans is less well-known than Andrew Jarecki's other great documentary, The Jinx, but far more powerful and existentially important: I've never encountered another that raises so many questions about how our own beliefs shape our perception of events. No-one in this film seems to be lying: they all seem to passionately believe they are telling the truth and that they are good people for doing so - surely partly because they'd find it impossible to live with themselves if they turn out to be wrong.

There's no narration: it's left up to the viewer to decide what version of events they want to buy into and take from it, and therein lies its unsettling power. You can be firmly convinced of one side one day and the other another, and so the final takeaway of the film comes to be the examination of one's own perceptions; the process taking place inside all of us as we unconsciously judge the world each day.

The film is also, strangely, occasionally very funny, which, when describing it from the outside, seems an odd and inappropriate thing to say, given the subject matter. But within the film itself it feels very appropriate and humane and makes a great deal of sense: all aspects of life are here captured and recorded forever, which is what makes it a great work of art, and, as I say, the best documentary ever made.

10/10

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Capturing the Friendmans (2003) Movie Review

Capturing the Friedmans – ABC Film Challenge – Oscar Nominations – C – Capturing the Friedmans – Movie Review Director: Andrew Jarecki Plot: Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes. Runtime: 1 Hour 47 Minutes There may…

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CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS- 2003 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A seemingly perfect Long Island family is destroyed when the father and one of his sons are accused of being pedophiles.

Utterly fascinating documentary about some of the most bizarre and delusional people I've ever seen. The first half of the documentary is like you think they have evidence the dad isn't a pedo. Then they're like yeah he is but who cares? And why isn't mum standing by him it's fucking mental. The son who complains about how hard it is for him to be a professional clown with all this going on had me in stitches.

Great documentary.

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Beliefs in Jesse Friedmans innocence grew when Jesse stated that he only pled guilty in court so he could avoid spending the rest of his life in prison. Jesse was aged 18 when he was imprisoned. He served 13 years and was released in 2001.

Jesse is now married and wants to have children. Jesse did an interview with ABC News and revisited his former family home where the crimes took place. The house looks different and the brown 1970s look is no more.

Director Andrew Jarecki purposely left out evidence from the documentary to bring doubt to Jesse’s guilt. In the documentary, he didn’t show any photos that had incriminating evidence.

In 1989 Jesse was interviewed by Geraldo Rivera and admitted that he and his father were guilty he went into great detail. Jesse admitted his father assaulted him and had assaulted children in the computer classes. Jarecki was aware of this interview and purposely left out footage and didn’t mention it in his documentary.

Ross Goldstein, Jesse’s close friend was arrested for abuse and was Jesse’s accomplice, this also wasn’t mentioned in the documentary.

During the 2003 Oscars, two victims wrote a public letter maintaining that they were in fact abused. There are still victims who maintain they were assaulted by Arnold and Jesse and these victims were left out of the documentary.

Arnold’s brother Howard has come out publicly to admit that both Arnold and Jesse were both guilty of sexually assaulting children. Howard said that Arnold told him that Jesse was guilty of the crimes he was convicted of.

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CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS

CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS (2003)

Capturing the Friedmans is a well-known documentary about an American family, the father Arnold is a paedophile, he is married to Elaine and the couple have three sons David, Seth (who didn’t feature in the documentary) and Jesse. The documentary explores child sex abuse charges against Arnold as well as his son Jesse. It also heavily features home videos. It questions whether Arnold and his son are actually guilty of child abuse charges.

Arnold Friedman is a convicted paedophile who was arrested when he ordered a paedophile magazine from the Netherlands. It was alleged he owned twenty child abuse magazines. Arnold pled guilty and admitted he has assaulted at least a dozen children.

Arnold told his lawyer that he had assaulted his brother Howard aged 8, in the documentary Howard says he doesn’t recall it happening.

Arnold was a teacher who held computer classes for children during the 1980s. His young adult son Jesse also helped with these classes and the two men were both convicted of sexually assaulting young boys in those classes. Jesse’s attorney stated that Jesse told him his father abused him growing up (which Jesse also admitted in court). Arnold and Jesse both pled guilty and were imprisoned.

Arnold’s son David works as a clown in New York entertaining children when director Andrew Jarecki met him. Arnold is definitely guilty of being a paedophile but the documentary and viewers question whether Jesse was really guilty of the crimes.

Arnold’s wife, Elaine, said that Arnold enjoyed looking at pictures of young boys to “meditate” and said that he confessed to her that he had assaulted one boy. His wife Elaine was the only woman he had been with and he didn’t want to marry her and didn’t enjoy being intimate with her. Arnold treated intimacy with his wife as ‘work’. The father and the three sons held a strong disdain for Elaine and she described the group as a gang that she wasn’t part of. She said her sons had an idolized saint-like view of their father. Elaine is not innocent, as she enabled her sons to remain under the same roof as Arnold, knowing that he had a history of child abuse, which put her children and other children in danger. When Arnold was imprisoned, she divorced him and started a new life for herself and remarried.

Arnold took his own life in prison in 1995 so Jesse can receive his insurance money.