Washington Post reviews 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent'

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2011-07-29 00:04

Review here. As expected, not entirely favorable. You can always contact them with your feedback or of course, post a comment to the reviewer's blog. Excerpt:

'After viewing an advance screener, I can safely call “Guilty” less a documentary and more a polemic. The movie consists of a series of one-sided-interviews interspersed with flashes of startling statistics about how fathers are most often cheated out of custody and overburdened by support requirements.
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Though only first names are provided for these men, there’s a good chance their stories have validity. There is certainly evidence that many men have endured injustice in the family court system. In the case that went before the Supreme Court, that father had been jailed for a year for failing to pay support even though the court never considered that he couldn’t pay.
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In “Guilty,” the unseen and unheard mothers are the villains, as well as a few judges and the family court system as a whole.

That’s too bad. The issues raised are larger than gender. We don’t have to look too far to find mothers who have also been brutalized by family court. Remember the story of Alaina Giordano, the mother who lost custody of her children because, in part, she was stricken with cancer?'

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That's too bad. The issues raised are larger than gender.

Well who would have though it? So I assume issues such as domestic violence and workplace harrasment will also be discussed in a gender-neutral manner. And organisations like NOW will no longer be given carte blanche to misrepresent these issues in the US media.

But something tells me to not hold my breath. There have been plenty of films highlighting abused women, with no reference to men who suffer the same. One film focussing on men and the MSM conplain. How typical.

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Submitted by sirprince on Fri, 2011-07-29 15:39

It never fails to irk me how any issue touching on gender conflict is assigned to a female (read: feminist) journalist. This has been true since the 60s when the practice was a result of chauvinism rather than activism. Too bad. I'd like for once to read a fair review that wasn't a gynocentric "polemic."

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Submitted by Hunchback on Fri, 2011-07-29 16:29

Editor:

The WaPo's "Fathers’ rights get in the spotlight," a review of the movie "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" by Janice D'Arcy on 7/26/11 http://tinyurl.com/4xkmfjl was sickeningly biased in it's dismissal of the gender issues against men that were raised in the movie. The movie soft peddled the plight of males at the hands of America's legal institution, and other social institutions, in my opinion, or has the WaPo staff so quickly dismissed the recent self-immolation of Thomas James Ball on the steps of an American courthouse? http://tinyurl.com/3oqnzv8 Have you forgotten Derrick Miller and the many other American men, driven to their fates by America's overtly misandrist legal system? http://tinyurl.com/6kslobg The review's reference, and elaboration, to women as "also brutalized" trivializes the true magnitude of what's happening to innocent men. Such misleading propaganda makes the review disingenuous (at best) and reflects the usual misandrist bias of the WaPo, in my opinion. The American legal institution, and other social institutions, are clearly "Witch-Hunting Males" as shown in the video of the same name at Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SC0a1_Vjs
I'm not soft pedaling it. Get used to hearing it.

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Submitted by MR on Fri, 2011-07-29 20:41