Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family's Secrets

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Lisa E @RT93414321 01/13/2025 Couldnt take my eyes off it!! I recommend this to people who haven't been sexually abused, so we can learn how very deeply it affects people's lives. Also, to sexually abused people so they can feel understood, validated...(?) At first it seems as if they support their grandpa, then it gets deeper into the whole ripple effect that he caused. He made me nauseous when he said his victims "enjoyed" it.. See more Regina W @Regina.warren7 12/24/2023 Really got to raw emotions, showed failure of people to confront their wrong doings, but in the end made the world a little better just by attempting to get people to talk to about those secrets. See more Nicole n @nesbizzle 12/13/2023 Amanda Mustard is one to watch! See more The S @The_Stranger 12/11/2023 What a difficult movie to make it through. I hate to say it but it genuinely feels like this movie was made as an opportunistic endeavor for the filmmaker. In the end, the only person really served was whoever sold this awful story to HBO. The victims weren't made whole, the family just seemed to take joy in serving up whatever punishment they felt they could serve to him. I certainly don't feel sympathy to the grandfather...we live in a hyperbolic society where if you're critical of one angle then you must be embracing the other angle and that's not what's going on. I just think the process of making this film drudged up lots of pain for everyone in the family from the victims to those who felt like victims just for being related to him. They also seemed to define themselves by his crimes so it's no wonder the pain lingered and hung over all of them. And again, I wager to say that no pain was relieved by making this documentary. It certainly didn't seem like it. Was just such an awful scene when after he died the granddaughter seemed so giddy about him dying alone and having his body donated. She wasn't even a victim so I guess it's hard to imagine feeling some kind of pleasurable rush or relief from hearing about your grandfather dying alone in a nursing home, only stopping by to get some footage of his suffering. Just sad all around, told a story about an awful human and the family who seemed to hang themselves on the cross for his sins and how they seemed to define themselves by the horrible crimes he committed. Just sad all around...no real catharsis, no real justice, no real anything but exposing a family's pain and suffering and kind of twisting the knife for whatever pain they feel they deserve for being related to him. See more KB B @Okbullard 12/07/2023 It was pretty disgusting what this guy got away with and then refused to admit what he did. I wanted to quit watching but I couldn't. See more Sandra S @sandibug 12/07/2023 I was mind-blown at the level of dysfunction and delusion this family still perpetuates. Through the whole movie I kept waiting for them to confront that monster, instead they were consistently nice to him, hugged him and treated him with concern. And don't even get me started about that mother. I was disgusted. And yet they tiptoed and barely touched on the fact that she threw her daughter into that horrific situation. She pretending not to know. What a joke. Through the whole movie I kept wondering how it must feel to be one of his victims watching this family treat this animal with reverence and love. Actually saying "I love you" and hugging him. My skin crawled, my stomach turned and I had to look away many times. On behalf of his victims that made the mistake of watching this wretched film, I am sorry. See more Read all reviews

Great Photo, Lovely Life: Facing a Family's Secrets

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