Countries: USA /
rating: 1988 Vote /
release date: 2020 /
average Ratings: 8,4 / 10 /
Directors: Jon Shenk
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First off this is a well made documentary, the tone is hopeful and the survivors are treated respectfully. The timeline is well established and the interviews relevant to telling the story. The subject matter is heartbreaking, but now that this is out in the open, hopefully the survivors can heal and the investigations continue.
What a film of immense bravery!
I wanna commend the girls that stood up and told their story; how hard it must have been but how incredibly brave. Well done to all of you; what strength and courage you’ve all shown.
How frightening that these huge organisations, and wealthy individuals, know they can hide behind the law and get away with anything, something should be done to change it (I do know it’s much easier said than done.
Why do people in authority enable the abusers to abuse? Surely by knowing it is going on they too are abusers? They’re certainly not protecting the young people they are meant to be looking after! Please continue to fight to bring them to justice.
This documentary hit Netflix today and I had the chance to watch Athlete A and here is my review for it. The premise of the film documents the real story of Dr Larry Nassar and how he molested young gymnastics for 30 years and how US Athletics covered it up.
Now this film deals with a really intense and disturbing subject matter and it does it really well. As you learn more and more you realise just how disgusting and horrific the actions by Nassar was and just how badly run the US Gymnastics was and how they aided this pedophile which is just truly horrifying.
The thing that makes this really awful, is that by all accounts Nassar seemed like a nice guy and the nicest guy at US Athletics. But he used this to break all the trust issues that there was and let him commit these horrible acts and it is so satisfying seeing him get taken down.
But this film did have some negatives and it is mostly due to it’s pacing. I felt like there was some background information that was presented here that didn’t add that much to the story. It would have been fine for a mini series but this is only a 1 hour 45 film so it dawdles at times when it shouldn’t be. Also if feels like it skips over the really interesting parts involved in this whole case.
Also, obviously seeing all these gymnasts revealing their stories are highly emotional I just wish they could of got Simone Biles to take part. She revealed to the court that she was a victim and with her being the most famous gymnast in the world it would have added more star power here.
Overall, this is a good documentary with a disturbing subject matter. But it has some pacing issues which hurts it and would have maybe been better as a mini series.
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