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Offline AllThatJazzZ

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Women need to be heard and believed
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Re: Women need to be heard and believed
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2018, 03:05:28 am »
I cannot fathom the mindset of someone who would remain silent while watching someone go to prison for a crime he/she did not commit, and still say nothing throughout the duration of the sentence.
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Re: Women need to be heard and believed
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2018, 04:00:06 am »
An inconvenient film...



Film Review: ‘Brian Banks’
Tom Shadyac's stirring film about a football player falsely accused of rape underscores the importance of speaking truth to power.
By Peter Debruge
   
The timing could hardly be worse for “Brian Banks,” a well-meaning and emotionally engaging movie about the California Innocence Project’s incredible battle to exonerate a Long Beach football player who lost 11 years of his life to prison and parole after a high school classmate falsely accused him of rape. Independently made and still seeking distribution, the compelling biopic — a stark departure from lowbrow studio comedies for “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” director Tom Shadyac — faces an uphill path not unlike the one CIP lawyer Justin Brooks (played here by Greg Kinnear) accepted when he took Banks’ case (a chance-of-a-lifetime role for Aldis Hodge).

In a sign that this solid social-justice drama stands apart from current events — an exceptional case that neither contradicts nor enhances the #MeToo movement — “Brian Banks” was met with....

https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/brian-banks-review-1202962271/


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Is this the movie the world needs now, one that casts doubt on survivor testimony and feeds a misogynistic culture’s fear that “good” men can have their lives destroyed by such accusations....
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