That Michael Jackson is associated with the film is both a blessing and a curse. As the filmmakers have pointed out this isn’t really a documentary about Michael Jackson at all, but on the reality of what child sexual abuse is to so many survivors and an illuminating dissection of why so much of it goes unreported and the conflicting and hugely devastating psychological trauma that persists. Even if the allegations were untrue (which is highly unlikely) the film speaks some powerful truths about the nature of child sexual abuse. Of course, it’s Michael Jackson’s name that will bring so many people to watch it and it is a film that needs to be seen - for parents who think their children would always tell them if something was wrong, for survivors who live with the trauma and for the public at large who often would prefer to ignore this issue. Yet it will unfortunately also lead to cries of “liars” and “money-grabbers” ( I wonder how many of Jackson’s defenders would have bet their own child’s safety on their beliefs ? Horrifyingly I think the number is too high to contemplate). As a film it is visually repetitive, but Reed knows the film’s power is in the words spoken. Not a film to be enjoyed as such by anyone, but an important one and its initial impact and polarizing reaction does much to inform us that the power of celebrity even today is just as dangerous.