She stole my line...except, that is pretty much the only thing to say about this case, at least if you want to bend over backwards to be fair to Mia and Dylan.
Freeman appears to have seen all four episodes in the last couple of weeks, after saying when episode 1 aired that she hadn’t seen it at all. If she’s right then the series is worse than I assumed, in that it never addresses most of the contrary evidence. The filmmakers have been saying in the media that their documentary does not need to be balanced, because Woody’s version has for 25 years been dominant, and they are bringing balance by supplying Maia and Dylan’s version. I’m not convinced there was ever a time that this was true - Allen has said relatively little over the years, and a search of Twitter will show that most people expressing an opinion about this assume “Woody Allen married his step daughter and molested his own child; WHY ISN'T HE IN JAIL?” I have been reluctant to bring this next point up, because it is ugly and has the effect of undermining Mia Farrow’s version even though as far as I know she has no connection to it. As I have been reading Twitter comments on this story I have been surprised at a steady stream of both latent and manifest antisemitism animating much of the anti Woody posts. (Raising this of course risks enacting a central trope from Annie Hall, but then I always preferred that to Manhattan). I’m not saying that anyone who believe the worst about Allen must be suspected of being an antisemite, but it does seem that, far more than with Harvey Weinstein (or Matt Lauer, though perhaps that is more understandable), Allen’s Jewishness is referenced in some way by a surprisingly large fraction of his detractors. I suppose that is due in large part to Allen making his Jewishness a big part of some of his films, and that for many Americans he has been their most influential exposure to Judaism. The ugly sense I get though is that for some, the molestation charges, even with relatively low levels of validity, free them up to basically say: “I always found that weird little Jew to be creepy.” My point in bringing that up is to suggest the explanation lies in the ambiguity surrounding the charges, which allows observers a less constrained field to project their own biases into the story. On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 5:12 AM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > A key paragraph perhaps considering what @Pgage has been saying: > > "Ziering and Dick don’t know what happened between Dylan and her father. > Neither do I and neither, perhaps, does anyone at this point, as repeated > retellings take the place of real memory. Braver and better film-makers > would drill down into how historical truth can change over time, and how > two people can look at one image and see very different things." > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 1:09 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The previously mentioned Hadley Freeman from The Guardian has a decent >> piece just published on what the documentary makers appear to have to left >> out: >> >> >> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/03/allen-v-farrow-woody-allen-mia-farrow-documentary-is-pure-pr-why-else-would-it-omit-so-much >> > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLGFicX7fxhmFRXrMFvWGmajqe-T2KSGpUzUzYuudo9fw%40mail.gmail.com.
