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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.[/quote]

I don’t know that the story made her life worse. Accounts of both child and adult sexual abuse, foster care, and serious abortion/miscarriage/fertility issues and drug issues were real.
[b]I am conflicted about whether stuff like this is trauma porn though.[/b] I do think social media, reality TV and all the fricking true crime podcasts has made me a lot more uncomfortable with writers and artists telling of other people’s real pain *without permission* than i used to feel, fictionalized or not. [/quote]

I think it is. I've just been watching it and ugh. I've had to stop.[/quote]

I felt the same way and stopped watching partway through. It does feel like trauma porn.[/quote]

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