SummaryPervert Park follows the everyday lives of the sex offenders in the park as they struggle to reintegrate into society.
Directed By:Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors
Written By:Frida Barkfors, Lasse Barkfors
Pervert Park
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May 20, 2016
100
Pervert Park is eye-opening about the lives of convicted sex offenders, as inspired by a degree of empathy we need not be afraid of.
May 21, 2016
83
Harrowing, uncomfortable, and heartbreaking, Pervert Park is an important film with an urgent, compassionate message.
May 19, 2016
83
Pervert Park never demands forgiveness, only an attempt to understand and to maybe see where these dark impulses come from.
May 19, 2016
80
Pervert Park reveals a linked chain of incidents; we are all connected whether we admit it or not. What if we all lived in communities where the people around us agreed to help us get better, rather than blaming and shaming us for our transgressions?
May 19, 2016
80
The documentary broadens well beyond a portrait of this particular facility to address the underlying causes of these crimes and to question how society might more constructively deal with the issues, where offering counseling to abuse victims becomes as important as, if not more so than, persecuting their abusers.
May 21, 2016
75
There’s an appealing sense of cyclical healing in watching these people go about their daily rituals; in the end, however, Pervert Park feels like an incomplete portrait of this tight-knit community.
May 19, 2016
70
To be sure, nothing in this film is easy to hear. But that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be said, and learned from.
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Dec 25, 2016
8
This documentary challenges you as a human being to try and understand and even forgive, it really makes you think. The approach taken is not to excuse past transgressions, but to try and look at factors that can result in reckless and illegal behavior. I found that each story was clearly different from a simple error in judgement to full blown molestation it was detailed. Second chances wasn't what the doc is looking for as much as trying to understand the horrible cycle of abuse that can occur in some families. This is strong work. A-
