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The documentary, whichairs on Sunday and Monday night, feels like a conversation-realigning milestone.
Still, they speak.
/ My little one is here.
How many little ones were there?
Jacksons estate, which issuing HBO for $100 millionfor co-producing this documentary, insists there were none.
Where were the parents in all of this?
I have to take some of the blame for this, she recalls telling Wade.
Im your mother and I didnt protect you.
Jackson, it seems, got away with it for the same reason thatR.
And much of the time, we dont say or do anything to halt it.
Or we make big plans and then choke.
InLeaving Neverland, Safechuck and Robsons narratives are woven together by drone images of Southern California.
The majestic gliding rhythm of the shots evokes the flights in J.M.
The documentarys title resonates on multiple levels.
Michael Jackson, it suggests, stole boys from the Neverlands of presexual existence.
They say times heals all wounds, Safechuck tells us.
But I dont think time heals this one.
It just gets worse.
To prioritize our own comfort over others pain is to choose Neverland.
Time to grow up.
