Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (2018)

The entire lefist establishment tried to crush this film because of the inconvenient truths. Gosnell is the Citizen Cane of our generation. Not that I think it was the best movie ever made, but then I don't think that of Citizen Cane either. But the elites tried to suppress it being made or distributed. And it tells an important story, and stays true to the facts: it is basically a reenactment documentary. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni Created: 2018-10-17

As the director (Nick Searcy) said, "There are three aspects to this story that are fascinating.

1. What happened
2. why it was allowed to happen
3. and why no one wanted to talk about it after it happened

So no matter what side the Abortion issue you come down on, and whether you support Roe v. Wade or not (I'm pro-choice myself), this was a fascinating story on how much the "abortion at any cost" crowd allowed, in the name of their agenda.

Since I value truth more than a political agenda, I found it very worthwhile, I suspect many that put their agenda above bad behavior will hate the movie.

Getting made

The media not only actively suppressed news about Gosnell the Abortionist who murders hundreds of viable babies and ran the world's most disgusting abortion clinic for 30 years without inspections, violate drug laws, medical rules, health code, and anti-racist laws, all while suppressing complaints. But similar forces tried to suppress the story of what happened from getting told as well.

• The film was announced in 2014, a year after Gosnell was tried and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole -- but no studio/producers would back it, despite true crime, and something so sensational being a prime movie target.
• So they turned to crowdfunding -- which shouldn't have been a problem. But Kickstarter censored the project from their website Turns out they have a political agenda, exploiting Chinese workers is on the right side of that, but the truth was on the wrong side of it.
• In March 2014 the team changed to Indiegogo and less than two weeks later reached their 2.1M goal and is currently one of the highest-funded crowdfunding projects of all time.
• Nick Searcy (director) came on board and said, "I am both excited and humbled by the opportunity to have a part in bringing this important American story to the screen. It is a story that many in Hollywood were unwilling to tell, and I am grateful to Ann, Phelim and Magdalena for having the courage to tell it." Expounding later that he knew such a controversial project would cause him to be shunned by some in Hollywood, but he agreed to direct after reading the script.
• Filming was completed in October 2015, and release was expected in 2016... but a distribution deal was not secured until June 2018. Searcy wrote in an op-ed that difficulty finding a distributor was due to a lack of willingness to tell the truth in Hollywood. Nobody wanted to be labeled with the stigma of telling a true story that was politically incorrect -- so they had to go around Hollywood and secure direct distribution.
• Then days before a distribution was set to be announced in June 2017, the Philadelphia judge who presided over Gosnell's trial, Jeffrey Minehart, filed a defamation lawsuit against the filmmakers for $50,000, stating the book and film portrayed him, "'as a villain in their story of the righteous versus the wicked' when in fact he's a "former prosecutor with an impeccable reputation for honesty, integrity and fairness.'" The lawsuit was settled out of court and the filmmakers were allowed to resume negotiations with distributors
• A Washington Times article reported that the filmmakers anticipated a lack of interest from the "left-leaning media" and that they would instead utilize social media, word-of-mouth, and reaching out to non-media influencers to garner support for the film. Their words were prescient as the media and many places like Rotten Tomatoes kind of suppressed the announce of the movie -- despite it coming on the heals of Brett Kavanaugh confirmation, which should have made it complete click-bait.
• After all that, there seems to be at least some theaters that are dropping it, despite it being a top performer, other theaters are doing things like telling people it is sold out (when it is not) and other things to sabotage sale. One or two is human error, in 188 theaters it seems like something else is going on.

 

Film Critics

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If you want to see leftist bias in media, you just have to look at all the examples of how far off from their reviewers are from their viewers. I use the spread as a predictor of whether I'll like a film. Big spread with audience over critics? I'm going to like it. But big spread with critics over audience? I'll usually side with audience.

Film Critics/Throwing Shade

Tatometer	Summary
	The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer - I was surprised the spread was only 60/97 (37%). It still showed the bias of reviewers, but it also showed that over half of them are willing to be semi-honest on the topic of abortion. Which while a patehtic showing, is still a lot more than I would have guessed. So some credit is due that this wasn't in the low double digits.

The Story

In the end it's a fascinating story the true story on the investigation and trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an eccentric abortionist that had a 30 year killing spree that the political and media establishment tried to cover up. This isn't about 1st or 2nd trimester abortions, this is about a doctor that was routinely doing greater than 24 week terminations by birthing live squirming and sometimes crying babies and "snipping" their spines once born -- then there's the illegal drug distribution, practicing medicine without a license, the unclean conditions like re-using single-use medical instruments and spreading STD's among patients, Kermit's shocking eccentricities, the politicians and media's reluctance to cover the story. So many aspects that are jaw dropping in the way they rip off the façade of a fair and honest media, or anything resembling protecting the rights or health of women.

While the movie watches like a typical Law and Order episode (more on the legal side than the investigation side), they painstakingly shot and took dialog from the trial transcripts and evidence. The movie is PG-13, so it is not shot in an overly gory or sensational way: you see the reaction of people to the photos without it being a horrific anti-abortion placard marching around outside a planned parenthood (you can see evidence shots at http://www.gosnellmovie.com if you're so inclined). During the closing credits they show the people involved, or the various crime scene photos that inspired scenes in the movie -- and they did an amazing job of staying as true to the truth as I've ever seen out of Hollywood, probably because Hollywood establishment wasn't involved.

So even though it is in limited release, with virtually no promotional budget, it's one of the most important films of the year to see, no matter which side of the issue you're on.

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🔗 Links

• http://www.gosnellmovie.com
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3722234/
• https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gosnell_the_trial_of_americas_biggest_serial_killer
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosnell%3A_The_Trial_of_America's_Biggest_Serial_Killer
• https://townhall.com/tipsheet/briannaheldt/2018/10/16/media-ignores-big-opening-and-critical-acclaim-for-gosnell-movie-n2529116
• https://thefederalist.com/2018/10/16/gosnells-pro-choice-libertarian-actor-dean-cain-says-film-will-surprise/
• https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/gosnell-movie-reviews-pour-in-brave-groundbreaking-shrewd
• https://www.facebook.com/gosnellmovie/
• https://townhall.com/columnists/brentbozellandtimgraham/2018/10/19/burying-gosnell-all-over-again-n2529839

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