Post by suzieeee on Aug 12, 2024 23:41:58 GMT
I just can't shake this. I re-discovered MJ in the last few months or so and can't get this out of my head. I first saw the documentary as a 13 year old when it aired and walked in on my Mother watching it. I had never heard of him before this. Watching the documentary back then I just thought he was weird, but entertaining. And he also seemed pretty benign in terms of his intentions.
Watching the documentary again, for whatever reason I decided to sit down and watch it one day a few months back and I was just deeply disturbed. This man was being exploited and mislead into absolute disaster. The interviewer, Bashir, wasn't interviewing him he was interrogating him looking for any piece of evidence he could find to paint him as a criminal. He also filmed Jackson while he was clearly intoxicated (yes, it's easier to notice this as an adult) and still posed questions to him that could "get him into trouble" and making sure to blow things out of proportion (hand holding with the cancer patient).
I am just appalled. I have read that MJ's purpose of doing the documentary was to also promote a national "children's day". Which is terribly sad.
I am just so angry.
Watching the documentary again, for whatever reason I decided to sit down and watch it one day a few months back and I was just deeply disturbed. This man was being exploited and mislead into absolute disaster. The interviewer, Bashir, wasn't interviewing him he was interrogating him looking for any piece of evidence he could find to paint him as a criminal. He also filmed Jackson while he was clearly intoxicated (yes, it's easier to notice this as an adult) and still posed questions to him that could "get him into trouble" and making sure to blow things out of proportion (hand holding with the cancer patient).
I am just appalled. I have read that MJ's purpose of doing the documentary was to also promote a national "children's day". Which is terribly sad.
I am just so angry.
