Our Father

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It's really a sympathetic, true life story that requires only knowledgeable individuals to give opinions towards the actions of the doc and someone who has experience being without a child ... One requires the wisdom of Solomon to solve this complicated situation.

Other reviews will provide the story line. Read some. The subject of this documentary is as bizarre and complex...or simple, as the reviewers here present it. Know that going in. Know also that this is a film about frustration, legality and guilt or the lack of it. Beyond those deep themes, the producers had a problem. As the story unraveled, it grew and at the same time became more focused. How to present that? The challenge was to keep the narrative moving forward with more and more supporting characters. The filmmakers decided to focus on a few selected victims/participants and play the 'father' of the title off against them. Wise decision. The film works well with this format. Could it have been tightened up a bit? I suppose so. Some of the revelations and reactions to them become repetitive, but overall, it's an interesting and revelatory documentary.

What a wasted opportunity. This could have been a brilliant documentary. Documentaries should aim to educate and inform, to spark the watcher's interest and make us question. The job of this documentary was only to enrage us. We were told over and over about how bad this was, and far-reaching baseless theories were put out. The main victim daughter did not come across well. Her purpose in life seems to be to punish this man. What he did was wrong. However, a more nuanced documentary that explored the topic without taking such a one-dimensional approach would have respected the intellect of the viewers more. The anti-Christian stance of the documentary was also off-putting. If anything, documentaries like this are "opium for the masses" which leave no space for thinking and ask us to just agree to exactly what the filmmaker's point of view is.