My Review of 'Leaving Neverland'

Finding Neverland is a documentary that I didn't think I'd see myself watching, but a co-worker highly recommended the film. I didn't know what to think of it as Michael Jackson's always been in the media about these alleged allegations. My co-worker said that it was really well done and would make me question Michael Jackson's innocence.

A month or two passed and I never watched the documentary. I suddenly got the channel that aired the documentary thanks to Game of Thrones and people were telling me they might pull the documentary off of HBO. The urgency got me interested and I decided to finally watch this controversial film.

The documentary is based off of two men that claim that Michael Jackson had sexually abused them when they were children. There were other boys that had accused Michael Jackson of these crimes, but I guess they couldn't really be interviewed because they had already gone through their own trials.

Curious enough, these two men were actually part of Michael Jackson's earlier trials and during those situations they adamantly claimed that Michael Jackson had never done anything to them. This wasn't just one trial, I believe they went through two trials in different decades and they both claimed that Michael Jackson never touched them improperly.

So naturally it would seem highly suspect that these two men would, now after the death of Michael Jackson, claim that they've been abused. I have seen this in the news a while back that one of the accusers, Wade Robson, was trying to sue the Jackson estate with his new allegations.

Yes, it sounds really suspicious on paper. It also looks heinous if you think that while Michael Jackson was alive he had helped use his own influence to help out their careers.

This is until you actually watch the film. You have a better grasp of what they're trying to say. I don't know if those are crocodile tears that Wade Robson is weeping but they did feel somewhat genuine. He is a dancer, actor, and director (not for this documentary though), so I don't know what to believe. Also, the guy is a bit of a jerk, even interviews with his wife mention that he's a kind of a jerk.

The film does a good job in convincing me that it is possible that Michael Jackson had done something to them, but their stories do sound crazy. I'm not sure why you would still be excited to see someone that had sexually molested you, but that's what they claimed in the film.

In this day and age I don't know what to believe, but their stories are out of the ordinary because Michael Jackson was larger than life. It could very well be true, I just wish the truth would finally be exposed once and for all.

Overall, I think this documentary was pretty well done. They swayed me to believe in the allegations and it was entertaining. It got a bit long when they were kind of repeating things for dramatic effect and I don't think I'd want to watch it again. For these factors, I'll give Leaving Neverland a 7 out of 10. It's worth watching if you're curious. Although, I wonder how much of an actual interest the public has for this film.

I'm sure a lot of younger generations might not know who Michael Jackson is. It's crazy how Michael Jackson and these stories soon won't even matter anymore after each generation. Although Michael Jackson was larger than life for a span of decades, our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter. He's become less relevant as the years progress so much that when this film came out I had to think back about what had happened in the past.