HBO is continuing to discuss the Michael Jackson allegations which had started in the 90s. News about Michael Jackson's perversions were the subject of some news and special investigations at the end of the last century. However, the public discourse on the subject of child abuse among the celebrities is ready only today. #Metoo and other online movements and related hashtags have reversed the discourse about sexual freedoms and sexual crimes. Most achievements of the 60s now have reverse consequences. If, in the childhood of Michael Jackson sexual behavior and various forms of sexuality formed some false perception of permissiveness, then today's society fix those false perceptions of sexual permissiveness. For instance, the movie Leaving Neverland exposes some false perception of result of the sexual revolution. At the same time, the movie provides a one-sided victimization view. The movie neglects that Michael Jackson is a victim here too - he has health issues, he suffered racial prejudices, he had a hard childhood. The HBO documentary is pretty one-sided and doesn't give the balance of fact and biography of victims of Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson as a victim himself of the society and family wherein he was raised. The main perception of the movie relies on posthumous judgments without any opportunity for Jackson and his family to defend and illuminate the allegations. Hopefully, the discussion about child abuse among American celebrities will not distract from other crimes and culture patterns which exist among unknown people and well known cultures in the East and Africa (child marriage and this alike practices). Anyway, the cultural heritage of Michael Jackson will still be a part of African-American history and an element of the World musical business.
Review of Leaving Neverland
