这其实是一部名不副实的纪录片,艾伦对决法罗,但是内容全是法罗一边倒的意见。没有采访到Woody。查新闻说这部纪录片联系到Woody夫妇了,但是只给了距上线两个星期的时间让他们回应。所以他们没有回应。即使是只采访了Farrow一方,Farrow的展示也远远谈不上全面。Farrow收养了14个孩子,其中三个已经过世。一个养女有偷窃成瘾的病,后来因为服毒过量自杀,一个养子自杀,另一个养女长期抑郁症因为心脏病去世,也有调查认为是自杀。Farrow的弟弟在她家附近自杀,哥哥因为猥亵儿童入狱,父亲曾经猥亵她的三个兄弟。这些全都有记录在案,这部纪录片全都有意的忽略了。另外,2018年#Metoo运动在美国起来以前,Farrow一直在为波兰斯基猥亵13岁少女辩护,直到2018年突然改了风向去跟这位曾经的少女道歉。这个细节纪录片也是没提的。我理解为什么Natalie Portman坚定地说她相信Dylan,大概多数的女人看到影片中的Dylan都会选择相信她。童年时候的伤痛,时至今日谈起来还双唇颤抖。身为女性大多数人都可以感同身受吧。谁能说这辈子都没有过咸湿手的经历?那种恶心和痛苦女人都懂。但是人的记忆往往是不可靠的,尤其是童年时的记忆。拿我自己来说,我最清楚的童年记忆之一是我小时候去北京的医院看病重住院的姥姥。但是后来我妈说那是不可能的,因为姥姥病重的时候他们根本就没有带我去北京,我之前去过北京,但是那时候姥姥并没有住院。我一点不怀疑Dylan认为她说的是真话,也觉得Dylan长大的过程一定很艰难。但是事实究竟是怎样的呢?想知道故事的另外一边,于是我去读了Woody Allen的自传Apropos of Nothing (其实是一部很平实很Woody风格的书,但是因为美国的出版商要“政治正确”,要“同性侵受害者”站在一起,所以这本书很长时间都没能在美国出版),Woody在这本书里详细写了1992年夏天这件事发生的前因后果和当天的情形。我后来又去了Woody养子Moses的博客看。Moses现在是一名执证的家庭心理咨询师。Moses这段话可以注意一下。
To those who have become convinced of my father’s guilt, I ask you to consider this: In this time of #MeToo, when so many movie heavyweights have faced dozens of accusations, my father has been accused of wrongdoing only once, by an enraged ex-partner during contentious custody negotiations. During almost 60 years in the public eye, not one other person has come forward to accuse him of even behaving badly on a date, or acting inappropriately in any professional situation, let alone molesting a child. As a trained professional, I know that child molestation is a compulsive sickness and deviation that demands repetition. Dylan was alone with Woody in his apartment countless times over the years without a hint of impropriety, yet some would have you believe that at the age of 56, he suddenly decided to become a child molester in a house full of hostile people ordered to watch him like a hawk.
http://mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html事发当天Frog Hollow(Farrow的康州别墅)有三个成年人,一屋子孩子,所有人都被交代说要把Woody看紧了,然而如果Woody还是决定在众目睽睽之下去猥亵Dylan,从心理学的角度来看那他肯定得是有性瘾,或是强迫症,这样的行为必然是重复性的。但是Woody在公众视野下生活了60年,在Metoo如此严格的背景, 这么多人悍跳的社会背景下,除了Dylan一例,从来没有收到任何的投诉。这件事的不合逻辑就在这里了。最后提一下,Farrow因为替波兰斯基辩护而去道歉的当年13岁少女Samantha Geimer,回复Farrow的道歉推特的时候是这么说的,
You need not be sorry. People support their friends. I understood that at 14 and took no offense to the many letters. I never needed the belief of strangers to validate my truth. Roman and my family reconciled long ago, I wish he and his family nothing but happiness.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/i-read-woody-allen-memoir/612736/Dylan, hope one day you could unchain yourself from the monster (be it Woody or the memory of Woody), and wish him nothing but happiness, too.