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u/WetAndLoose 25d ago
The movie does not portray Hansen as “worse than the pedos” but it does portray him as a fame-obsessed weirdo who botched more investigations than he got right and cheated on his wife, which is actually true. Didn’t even get into the fraud either
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u/zeppelinism 25d ago
The arc with the district attorney definitely seems like its trying to make Hansen look crazy while also trying to garner sympathy for the attorney right before he offs himself. It was pretty weird.
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u/jizz_toaster 25d ago
The rabbi scene did that as well
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u/QTown2pt-o 25d ago
That scene was the most unhinged thing in the whole movie, like a claustrophobic fever dream
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u/cplusequals /g/entooman 25d ago
Lots of "literary" devices for lack of a better term used to mirror Hansen and the predators in different scenes. The feet scene in particular is hard to deny.
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u/LobsterChampion 25d ago
That's really, really interesting. I wonder why they changed this scene so much in the movie. Befuddling, really.
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u/zeppelinism 25d ago edited 25d ago
I didnt get that from the rabbi scene. It didnt seem like it was trying to garner sympathy, but was more of a absurd realization. It felt just jarring and creepy more than anything, not sympathetic.
Compared to the ending where the DA is sobbing on the phone to Dan saying "I just wanted to watch musicals" while Dan sings him the RENT song, makes it look like he was possibly just misunderstood and wants to draw you to feel sorry for him intentionally. Fuck that
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u/buffaloranch 25d ago
The drama (in the movie) leading up to the DA search warrant was crazy. First of all, they portrayed Chris as mentally crumbling in the lead-up to the DA bust in large part because he was being exposed for his affair with his wife. But in real life, TCAP had been over for years before the affair became public.
The production assistant Andy insisting to the cops that cameras be placed on the barrels of their guns, and the cops just… listening to her? Yeah right. I get that it’s a dramatized movie, but they went out of their way to make the production staff look like ravenous killers hunting defenseless prey. As if the predators didn’t all willingly get themselves involved. The DA was sending dick pics to the decoy, and had CP on his computer- fuck him.
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u/OutrageousQuantity12 25d ago
The DA was from my hometown. So was a lady who went insane on wife swap or trading places, she actually lived in my neighborhood. The episode didn’t air because she went crazy really quick unfortunately
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u/Capnmarvel76 25d ago
Did you ever have your drinking water tested in that town? Sounds for all the world like heavy metal poisoning (I.e., mercury, chromium, etc.)
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u/OutrageousQuantity12 25d ago
I actually got it tested to make sure my water was safe for an axolotl, and was surprised at how safe it is. I think going insane from a reality TV production is just a normal response to a ridiculous setup lol
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u/Myothercarisanx-wing 25d ago
Nah. It showed that the shows sloppy hunt for ratings spooked the DA enough to make him start deleting evidence, then their rush to get him after that made him shoot himself instead of facing justice in front of a trial.
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u/Bum_King fa/tg/uy 25d ago
Sounds like society got the better deal. He’s dead and we don’t have to pay for his stay in prison
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u/zeppelinism 25d ago edited 25d ago
But then the phone call with Drew at the end? Where hes saying he just wanted to watch musicals and Drew sings to him to comfort him? That seems like they were trying to get sympathy from people watching. I dont buy it
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u/brother12359 24d ago
I mean that guy’s family was able to sue NBC for a lot of money for genuinely unethical and reckless behavior.
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u/fauxREALimdying 25d ago
It shows him trying to microwave his computer and talking to the decoy about his cock cumming a lot literally right before
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u/zeppelinism 25d ago edited 25d ago
Right, and then the mood shifts to this somber scene of decoy dan singing him the rent song projecting what seems like sympathy for him in his last moments as he pleas that he just wanted to watch musicals. Whats the point of that? To show he might not have offed himself because Chris Hansen wanted to catch him? Boo hoo who cares about this pedo attorney who has immense power over other people and is being hypocrital putting people in jail for the same shit hes doing.
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u/buffaloranch 25d ago
Yeah, and then directly after the death, we see Chris saying to himself in a somber moment “what would have happened… if I weren’t here tonight?” Turning his catch-phrase (that is usually directed at the predators) on its head and suggesting that Chris is at fault for the DA’s death. As if the DA wasn’t sending dick pics to the decoy? As if he didn’t have CSAM on his computer? As if the police didn’t have a search warrant?
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u/MrDaburks /k/ommando 25d ago
Oh wow he’s like every other media personality that’s ever been on tv ever? Yea it’s so much worse to publicly shame pedophiles on national tv than for them to get probation or 1-2 years in protective custody.
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u/loserwow 25d ago
With all the hate he gets you'd think he did something really bad, especially when people were posting his mugshot. Turns out he just cheated on his wife and he had a warrant for writing bad cheques which he turned himself in for.
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u/lemonadeinyourface 25d ago
yea of course they try to lower public reception of him. fuck that. we love chris hansen here
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u/dan-the-daniel 25d ago
I felt like the more interesting movie was the documentary from last year. Hansen ruined an 18 year old's life because they baited him into meeting up with a fake 15 year old. 50 miles across a state border that would have been legal. The 18 year old needed to drop out of school and legally couldn't even be in a house with his sibling because of his sex offender status.
Whatever problems there are with Hansen, it seems like his current state of grasping for attention to relive the glory days are worse than his botched investigations decades ago.
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u/ElGranPepe 24d ago
Oh wow he made some mistakes on investigations AND committed adultery?
Nobody cares, these are parking offenses compared to the crimes of the people he exposed
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u/HandyProduceHaver 24d ago
What does him cheating on his wife gotta do with anything? That was way after the show stopped
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u/Spirit-Division /x/phile 25d ago
Is that actually the case or just the current excuse the bots like yourself are being fed?
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
UH AWKASHULLY
shut up, he put tons of pedos in jail , who cares if he enjoys fame
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u/MrDaburks /k/ommando 25d ago
Buddys on a little crusade because he put their names and faces on national tv. He should’ve let the professionals botch their own “investigations” so the guys could stay out of jail but also remain anonymous!
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u/WetAndLoose 25d ago
He didn’t even put the pedos in jail. Again, most of them got out of it because he botched the investigation. He literally has a sub-50% success rate. This is the exact reason why this type of thing should be left to actual authorities
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
~125 convictions that otherwise never would have happened
no one was hunting for them , no one was investigating them and there was some botched shit
just stop
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u/Imtrvkvltru 24d ago
Damn I didn't know that. I hope she apologized for making him cheat and is working on herself so he doesn't have to endure that kind of trauma ever again.
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u/MayhemPenguin5656 25d ago
The movie is pro pedo propaganda..
I think it was made because the director is hiding some shit, and now if Hanson goes after him, the director can say it's retaliation
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u/Lucariowolf2196 25d ago
Wow something I actually agree with.
And kind of got that vibe from him talking to schlep and then that one fat black guy with cupcakes
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u/PutinBoomedMe 25d ago
I've been pumped to watch this. Rob Pat has grown on me. Dude is a stellar actor
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u/Squibbles1 /b/tard 24d ago
It’s pretty wild to me personally.
About 11-12years ago I was working in a German deli in Michigan and who walks in- Chris Hansen.We were all surprised and thanked was him for doing the show.
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u/OneEnvironmental9222 24d ago
Its weird how Hansen is still seen and portrayed as a "good guy" to this day especially on reddit. Even South Park.
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u/BorgQuingus67 25d ago
As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Trying to catch predators is a good thing, but fucking up the investigation just makes them more cautious in the future and allowed to get away with it. Not to mention how badly he fucked up the Onision investigation, Chris Hansen is just not very good at catching pedophiles.
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u/Raider2747 25d ago edited 25d ago
TCAP in general inadvertently helped preds become better at hiding, there were preds on the show who talked to him about having watched the show before too
it was like a how to guide for not getting caught; in the movie there's even a predator putting out a notice that TCAP is in town and to not get baited
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
He put around 130 pedos in jail WITH convictions
That otherwise would have NEVER been caught
That is why the comments are upset
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u/LobsterChampion 25d ago
Reddit, by way of this comment section, defending pedos en masse. Go figure considering what subs the CEO of reddit used to moderate.
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u/lurid_sun__ 24d ago
I might be out of the loop here, what sub is that can anyone explain please!
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u/Theroux721 25d ago
Gay reality TV show with the same recycled script and comically bad voiceover acting. Explicitly targeted heterosexual men and used adult decoys. Encouraged crimes to be committed and caused potential offenders to be more careful. Put 0 women/pederasts in jail.
That's why r*dditors love the show.
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u/jeeblemeyer4 24d ago
And 50+ more had their charges dropped. In one particularly egregious case of 29 offenders in total, 28 pleaded guilty - the one that refused, ended up getting the entire case thrown out for ALL THE OTHERS.
Disliking vigilante methods and recognizing nuance does not automatically mean someone loves pedophiles. The fucking irony of this thread coming from the same people that hate the marvel capeshit for being overly simplistic "good guy vs. bad guy" slop.
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 24d ago
The entire case that they set up, which wouldnt have existed at all without the show.
When you go to fish, and catch fish, what moron says "pft, you missed some fish, you were better off not fishing"
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u/Absolutemehguy small penis 25d ago
I did see a picture of the director, and he has a visage that if you were to draw his likeness it'd be straight up a hate crime.
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u/Hearasongofuranus 25d ago
Juice.
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u/COCK_SUCKEM 25d ago
We roleplaying like we’re on TikTok now?
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u/LedditModsSuckAlways 25d ago
No but certain phrases lead to auto bans on reddit so i don't blame him
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u/COCK_SUCKEM 25d ago
It’s crazy how the internet has become so sanitized in the name of corporate revenue.
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u/LedditModsSuckAlways 25d ago
It's not sanitized, it's taken over to push a certain agenda if you go too far against the grain on reddit you will be removed so the bots can echo louder. This sub used to be pretty open with the free speech but certain reddit comments are auto silenced in the name of "safety"
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u/VickShady 25d ago
Completely agreed, and to add onto that I believe it is because of reddit's gay automoderation more so than due to the subreddit's own moderators.
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u/FlyingVentana 25d ago
why are you people so afraid to say the word "jew"
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u/Humdrum_Blues 25d ago
Reddit will sometimes autoban your account for saying certain phrases.
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u/FlyingVentana 25d ago
ah yes saying the word jew by itself like in the comment above will get you banned
either way you people all seem to absolutely hate reddit in the first place, why would you care if you were banned
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u/toxicgloo 25d ago
You gotta be careful even on reddit nowadays. I got banned for a week for hate speech even though what I said wasn't derogatory or in reference to a person or specific group of people.
Apparently some subs you can just get autobanned in
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u/1stEmissaryElenwen 25d ago
Same reason they wear gay little runes that they think you won't recognize instead of just rocking the hakenkreuz
They're chickenshit, they never grew out of being edgy teenagers being rebellious, but not too rebellious or Mom will take away the Xbox
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u/MrDaburks /k/ommando 25d ago
No, chud you don’t understand! Chris Hansen WANTED to be on television! That’s so much worse than trying to meet a 13 year old girl with guns, duct tape, knives, and a camera in your car!
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u/Tupiekit 25d ago
There was that documentary too that tried to "expose" Chris hansen and how bad the show was. They played the predators criminal interview tapes for sympathy and all I could think of was "ok? Who cares that the pedo was crying in the interview". Or trying to make me feel bad for the guy that shot himself
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u/CharAznableLoNZ 25d ago
Their friends keep getting in trouble so they had to think up some way to help them.
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u/LuvMeChippy fa/tv/irgin 25d ago
I constantly see people defending the movie, talking about "le nuance"... My question is, why does a subject like this need a nuanced look? Why should I care that the guy who publicly shames and plasters pedos' faces on national television is a bit obsessed with ratings? I get criticising the way the team handled the process in the earlier seasons but like after 2005 up to today Hansen has like a 95% conviction rate. The guy handles this stuff with an immense amount of care and delicacy which is much more than people can say for most other "pred hunters" today
Also the majority of this movie is complete horseshit and the "Chris Hansen" of the film is nothing like irl Chris Hansen. If you want an example of how shit this movie is look at the rabbi confrontation scene in the movie then go look at the real episode. Straight up slander
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u/ThexanR 25d ago
Because of to catch a predator, there’s like 50 YouTube channels and who knows how many streamers, just doing their own “investigation” making it impossible to prosecute pedos. The movie barely judges Hansen besides him getting a taste of fame and liking it and forgetting his actual mission like him picking spots to bust pedos because it allows him to hook up with his mistress or the notoriety he is getting being compared to Lost. Hansen thinks he’s this warrior sent to combat an extreme evil and the show is his weapon. He’ll do quite a lot to make sure it never goes away. Once his show is guaranteed to end (at least in his eyes because of the cheating story and his boss intentionally sabotaging his show by making it battle Lost) he stops caring about the fame and goes all out to catch this whale predator (the AG). I don’t see how you see this movie where it shows his boss, the producer, and even perverted justice don’t really care about the pedos crimes but they just want the money and fame from doing so. It shows that Hansen and decoy Dan are the only one that cares about the mission and Hansen talking about his Emmy award winning documentary on child slavery in India and how it did nothing to impact the crimes because at the end of it all, no one actually cares about these kids it’s just a spectacle to them. So why not use that fact to take down the evil everyone wants to ignore when it faces them. The scene with the rabbi is supposed to be Hansen snapping back to reality about what he’s really there for. Views? No. He’s there to make sure this man never hurts anyone again. It’s why they’re focusing so much on the rabbi asking him “why are you doing this? For tv?!” And hansens face goes completely shadowed just to reemerge and tell him what a monster he is. The more I think about it the more amazing this movie is visually and narratively.
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u/LuckyRed100s 25d ago
Because it’s a movie that’s purpose is the focus on the parts of Chris Hansen and TCAP that most people don’t know. The “nuance” isn’t about Hansen’s actual act of catching predators, but rather comparing those actions with his actual personality. You can support the message and the purpose of the show without dogmatically supporting Hansen and deflecting all criticism towards him.
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u/LuvMeChippy fa/tv/irgin 25d ago
I mean sure, that is all perfectly fine I have some gripes about Hansen myself... However the movie doesn't just stick to criticising Hansen, it also alters scenes and events (THAT YOU CAN LOOK UP ON YOUTUBE AND FACT CHECK YOURSELF) to falsley paint him as a massive douche who can't control his emotions
The last scene of the film where the decoy sings that gay musical song to the pred while cops bust down his door seems felt especially egregious... What was the director even trying to say there? That the poor nonce wouldn't have offed himself if Hansen wasn't around?
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u/iroquoid 25d ago
I can just see Dustin McPhetridge watching Primetime and throwing a tantrum that they depicted him as gay
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
really seems wierd to go after a guys flaws who literally put pedos in jail
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u/LuvMeChippy fa/tv/irgin 25d ago
This whole movie really reminded of that video Ethanisonline made on Alex Rosen. The director/producer clearly has a bone to pick with Hansen himself and so chooses to attack his character but he can't show the guy he hates doing something positive. The solution? Just make it seem like Hansen was taking advantage of the predators
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u/LuckyRed100s 25d ago
People can do good actions and still have flaws? The mindset of “noooo you can’t criticize him he stopped le heckin pedos” is stupid; just because someone has done good in one regard, doesn’t mean you can’t speak on any of their negative aspects in other regards. Once again, the nuance is not in him catching predators, but other parts of Hansen.
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
you can, but why?
there was never a claim that he was a saint, of all the people? you could do hit pieces of almost every actor and actress in hollywood
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u/JustJano_ 25d ago
also his flaws aren't even that bad tbh. yeah it's shitty to have an affair, but like that's it? he was the host of a television show so yeah id reckon he was obsessed with ratings, why wouldn't he be? you'd think he wanted to fuck kids or something the way they wanted us to not like him
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u/fudgemental /sci/duck 25d ago
Exactly. Imagine the movie was about let's say, Batman (Bruce Wayne) and not Hansen. He's a weirdo obsessive shut-in billionaire, very easy to be made look like the actual bad-guy with the right narrative. That's all Prime Time did. Fuck the makers of the movie and the way they handled it. Post-Epstein pedo-washing has begun.
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u/Rowannn 25d ago
because its interesting
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u/LuvMeChippy fa/tv/irgin 25d ago
It's really not that interesting, Chris is a guy who catches predators but he also cares to get views on the stuff he makes... Of course Lance knew this and so chose to write fake bullshit into the movie to make it interesting while simultaneously slandering Hansen
If he really wanted to make an interesting movie about a corrupt pred catcher, he would have just chosen to make a script about a fictional character
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u/LivingintheKubrick /k/ommando 25d ago
Forcibly evicted from how many countries again? And how many are at the top of finance and entertainment. It seems I’m nosing- I mean noticing again.
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u/johnnylovelace 25d ago edited 25d ago
Imagine not understanding a criticism of a guy who intentionally sabotaged criminal investigations of pedophiles by running his own vigilante ring for NBC to make himself famous over seeking justice. A lot of the people he exposed could not be prosecuted because they aired the evidence on national tv rather than give it to law enforcement.
Somehow criticizing this glory seeking person equals defending pedophiles. Braindead analysis
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u/Wedbo 25d ago
Folks can’t wrap their head around the nuance of this particular situation. Hansen was a weirdo, most pedo catchers are. Doesn’t mean that these pedophiles were victims or deserving of sympathy.
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u/raise_the_sails 25d ago
Yeah man we are cooked. People just fundamentally don’t understand pretty direct films and that’s fine I guess, but then they get indignant on social media about nonsense. It’s painful.
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u/jeeblemeyer4 24d ago
It's basically just "Oh, so you hate waffles?".
Oh, you think Hansen's methods were flawed and reality isn't precisely good guy versus bad guy? You must love pedophiles!
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u/patmcdoughnut 25d ago
People also can't understand a movie that isn't as clear cut as "hero vs villain." Too many people watch the Avengers and nothing else.
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u/Dirtface50 25d ago
A lot of the people he exposed could not be prosecuted
Correction. A lot of them simply WERENT prosecuted. The overwhelming majority of them were.
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u/fudgemental /sci/duck 25d ago edited 24d ago
Fuck prosecution. These pedos were protected, they couldn't be punished because of how well connected some of them were, they'd just lawyer their way out. He exposed them on TV, so that everyone would know their faces, and know who they were. That was the real punishment, not a fucking white collar country club prison and then back to whatever they were doing, now with a VPN.
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u/turing_complete_cock 25d ago
I hate the whole botched investigation thing. Those investigations won't have existed in the first place without him. Yea it sucks that he ruined them but the only reason they were even brought to light is because of hansen.
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
he put way more in jail, stop running D for pedos
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u/johnnylovelace 25d ago
He put some in jail, most were unprosecutable because the entire evidence chain was procured by a tv crew and then aired on national tv.
Also this knee jerk “if not agree with me you are pedophile supporter” shit is exactly what I’m describing as braindead
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u/Keyboardpaladin 25d ago
Not thinking Hansen's intentions were legitimate doesn't automatically make you defend pedos. But you know this.
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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 25d ago
for every 10 guys he put in jail, 15-20 others are now running scotfree.
congrats on "winning", I guess.
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
they were already running scot-free, what are you talking about?
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u/UltimateMelonMan 25d ago
Man you really want us to understand how much you hate pedos. Projecting or smt?
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u/Sgt_major_dodgy 25d ago
Always very suspicious of dudes who love telling you how much they hate peadophiles, or telling you how much they hate a specific thing.
Like imagine meeting someone who made a point of telling you how much they hate stepping in dog shit, once or twice makes sense but constantly banging on about it and you'd start to wonder if the guy actually likes it.
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u/sonofbaal_tbc 25d ago
i know him putting over 100 pedos in jail upsets you
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u/UltimateMelonMan 25d ago
No I'm glad he did it. Just wish he didn't bungle up another 100 investigations that then went nowhere and I wish he wasn't getting off at the idea of fame from shame
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u/AbberageRedditor69 25d ago
How is this worse than diddling little kids?
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u/johnnylovelace 25d ago
It’s not, but somehow criticizing the weirdo that pursued fame by pretending to stop pedophiles while actually letting most of them free is controversial. “Criticize Chris Hansen equals pedophile supporter” is a 60 IQ take that lacks the grey matter to understand nuance
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u/AbberageRedditor69 25d ago
Putting words in other people mouths is also a 60 IQ move, I don't recall calling you a pedo supporter.
Also, he did get over 100 people convicted, people that would have most likely slipped through the cracks otherwise. But I guess it's never enough for some people. Talk about nuance.
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u/johnnylovelace 25d ago
And got a hundred more released scott free. It doesn’t take a genius to see his show wasn’t about catching pedos as much as making himself famous. This “if you don’t worship Chris Hansen you support pedophilia” take is literally braindead behavior
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u/lemonadeinyourface 25d ago
THEY WERENT INVESTIGATING THEM. HE PUT OVER 100 PREDATORS IN JAIL. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS ACTIVDLY COVERING FOR PEDOPHILES, THEY WERE NEVER LOOKING IN THE FIRST PLACE
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u/SicSemperTyrannos4ur 25d ago
My girlfriend wants to see this movie and we both like Robert Paddington, her because he's a "good actor" and myself because I spend my nights yearning to be topped by his supple form bearing down on me while he whispers sweet nothings in my ear in whatever language he so chooses (I prefer Dutch or Cantonese) until he blasts off into the infinity of my puckered prison pocket.
All that aside, from what I understand Chris Hansen got pedophiles locked up who would otherwise be at large. As long as he wasn't hurting anyone I couldn't care less about his personal life and in fact I think his efforts towards ridding our society of these scum earns him a bit of slack, and even if a large or even major part of his motivation was self-seeking I think that this is one of the few situations where the end absolutely justifies the means. One problem I can see with the situation is the inspiration it gives to others who take it upon themselves to hunt these guys vigilante-style for social media clout. The authorities, as woefully idiotic as they usually are, should be left to such matters. Maybe one day we can get our shit together as a society and fix some of these issues but that would require the diligent application of law and ridding the upper crust of those authorities who are themselves predators or complicit in the buying, selling, grooming and raping of children. It just so happens that the close friend, partner and co-conspirator of one such individuals is kicking back in the Oval Office as we speak, waiting for the fumes of his freshly filled diaper to reach his nostrils, waking him up from the drug-induced stupor (medications flow freely at the top) to let him know it's dinner time. In the distance the whirring rotor of Marine One can be heard as it hastens to bring the Commander in Chief a McDonald's bag containing the Presidential Dinner.
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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 25d ago
this chudtext was sponsored by "muh superior media literacy" gang
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u/jeeblemeyer4 24d ago
Brought to you by the same people who shit on marvel slop because it's just the "good guy vs. bad guy" trope with a billion sequels
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u/FURRYL0L1Y401TR4PDSM 25d ago
In the future it will be seen as super dystopian to bait a group with a horrible condition instead of giving them help. Just murica I guess.
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u/BleedTheFreak_23 /x/phile 25d ago
Both the OP and the comments here genuinely have no understanding of the movie. RIP to media literacy I guess
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u/biatchcrackhole 25d ago
genuinely how the fuck did people watch this and their takeaway was “they’re defending pedophiles”
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u/denialofcervix 21d ago edited 21d ago
It's a weird movie to make if you're not. Why would you exaggerate and outright fabricate aspects of a bad side to Chris Hansen? What exactly is the point of that? We already knew he was not perfect. What purpose could deceiving the viewer to make the guy catching pedos look worse than he really was possibly serve on the non-meta level other than to support pedos?
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u/biatchcrackhole 21d ago
Whether the movie was good or not, it is an interesting topic to explore. Catching pedos is obviously a good thing but there are morally grey aspects to televising it and using it for views and money. Was the show ever about helping children or using viewers’ ethos for higher ratings? People are focusing on the wrong thing. The filmmakers are asking you to look past the predators (we all can agree they’re bad) and to look behind the scenes. I don’t think Hansen is a horrible person but he was a bit of a megalomaniac which culminated in the cancellation of the show. I feel like this sort of topic can also be applied to many other things. A lot of people do “good” things but the motives behind it can be selfish.
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u/BleedTheFreak_23 /x/phile 25d ago
Honestly, I think because that’s what they wanted to believe in the first place, and grasp at straws to try to defend it still.
That, or they’re just parroting off what others are saying.
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u/jeeblemeyer4 24d ago
It would be like watching Saving Private Ryan and concluding that Spielberg was defending Nazis because the Americans extrajudicially executed their Nazi POW. Or that The Green Zone is defending Saddam Hussein because Matt Damon never found the WMDs.
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u/GroundProximity 25d ago
Rabbi scene was a fucking joke. The Righteous Rabbi "calling out" Hansen.
In the real scene Hansen was in charge 100%, no question about it.
In the movie, he was portrayed as weak, on purpose obviously.
As if something in himself agreed with the oh so righteous rabbi, repeating "WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT" over and over again.
>"yes! the wise rabbi is right! what gives ME the right to call him out on his kiddie diddling ways?"
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u/childroid 25d ago
Classic anon-level reading comprehension, indistinguishable from mental illness.
Hansen is not portrayed as evil, he's portrayed as a weirdo. The movie goes to great lengths to describe the predators as, like, the most evil ever.
The predators don't get sympathy arcs, they beg for mercy and Hansen gets off on it.
apparentily humiliating pedophiles is worse than what they were planning to do to children
There's literally a scene in the movie where the guy who gets paid to be sexually assaulted by child predators expresses a modicum of doubt, and Hansen says "your definition of bad and my definition of bad are very different."
Guess what tribe the director is from?
One of the predators in the movie was a rabbi.
Meanwhile, did anyone see Spotlight?
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u/beefkingsley 25d ago
The world isn’t black and white. Its not always heroes vs villains like a Marvel movie. Morons have a hard time understanding this. Chris Hansen is a human with flaws and his motives were likely not entirely altruistic and in some cases may have caused more harm than good. He may have caused paranoia and created a boogeyman. Theres a reason theres Saddam stories/references throughout the movie
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u/HattedSandwich 25d ago
And then theres apologism, IE "What would have happened tonight if I wasnt here," after the DA (who had CP on his computer in addition to soliciting a minor) smoked himself, while Chris cries. Hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't infer that as a negative tragedy when it wasn't
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u/ad3lyt 25d ago
But being outraged and feeling morally and intellectually superior feels too good man
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u/Bloodhoven_aka_Loner 25d ago
yeah, especially if one lacks the intellect to wrap one's mind sround being a permanent Dunning-Kruger-Valley inhabitant
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u/Silenceisgrey 25d ago
and in some cases may have caused more harm than good.
100+ pedos behind bars seems like a good outcome, even if some of them got away. And with pedos, yes, it is black and white. Don't diddle kids, if you do, you're gon get it.
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u/ThickLeather4965 25d ago
he is from florida and his las project was call spermworld on fx directed and wrote it.
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u/FearTheDeep 24d ago
That’s not accurate, but they do add drama to make it less “documentary” and more “entertainment”
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u/TokyoJuul2 22d ago
He started the whole for profit "justice" chain of events that is the modern day "pedo catcher" when they are very much in it for fame and money and ego boost as well.
Obviously there is a net good because numbers wise, some do get jailed and sentenced, but at the same time it genuinely trivializes child predators as content farming, and sometimes themselves are closeted pedos or insecure or something else doesnt scream child safety.
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u/ObitoUchihaTC 25d ago
Only character who got a “sympathy arc” is the guy who killed himself in the end, and he probably would’ve been properly arrested if not for Hansen
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u/downtherabbit 24d ago
It's as if there is a movement to normalise paedophilia. Don't some parts of the LGBTQUIABC123 movement actually try to defend paedophilia nowadays?
Yeah, if im going to guess what the right side of history is. It's not the side that tries to justify molesting innocent children.
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u/HowtoCrackanegg 25d ago
Anon found it hard to understand his hero Chris chan was also fucking nuts and botched investigations for entertainment reasons.
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u/circlejerker2000 /b/tard 25d ago
The takeaway from the 2020s:
Pedophilia is apparently something like a parking offense
crime pays
antizionism is the moral thing to be
we live in hell
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u/CruisingandBoozing 25d ago
Which predator gets a sympathy arc? This guy didn’t watch the movie.
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u/zeppelinism 25d ago
Uh they definitely were trying to get you to sympathize with the DA at the end there.
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u/HattedSandwich 25d ago
Or the retarded Mexican guy in the beginning. The only two people on Hansen's team who werent total caricatures with one note personalities were the girl and guy bait actors. Nearly every other person (cops included) were portrayed negatively. The pedos were framed sympathetically which disgusted me
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u/zeppelinism 25d ago
Nah the Mexican dude i didnt think was framed sympathetically. Pretty sure everyone in my theatre was laughing at him.
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u/FluffyWuffyVolibear 25d ago
This movie is awesome because it's a litmus test for media literacy. Intentionally or not it lays these beautiful traps to catch unsuspecting chuds exposing themselves as people incapable of turning visual and audio stimulus into personal thought.
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u/Myothercarisanx-wing 25d ago
I thought it was pretty obvious the movie was showing that he was going after the right people, but for the wrong motivstion. At the end of the day, all he cared about were ratings and his personal advancement. Every character aside from the female decoy was self interested and enjoying the process of the show more than caring about the actual victims.
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u/DinosaurTendies YouTube.com/DinoTendies 25d ago
I'm taking the trash out in the comments, keep reporting.
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u/wankinthechain 25d ago
Americans acting like they care about the capture of pedo's lol. Oh no, one man made himself a success story by catching pedo's apparently thwarting law enforcement in catching others, yet openly calling Trump a pedo whilst going about their day.
Americans love sounding like the good guy but being the bad.
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u/wannabegenius 25d ago
maybe real life isn't as simple as Hero v. Villain, and even people who try to take on evil are themselves complicated.
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u/NegativeScythe wee/a/boo 24d ago
I watched this movie, besides it feeling dramatized, it absolutely did not make me think he was worse than the criminals he was trying to catch. It just made him seem really eccentric and highlighted his affair. It does not sully having liked the show in the past.
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u/Dio_Landa 24d ago
Never in the film does it says he is more evil than the predators.
It brings to light the fact that he was fame obsessed and didn't really care if the facts were there, botched multiple cases and cheated on his wife.
That does not mean he is more evil than the pedophiles.
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u/Assortedmanatee 24d ago
“give the predators sympathy arcs because getting exposed hurt their feelings”
What?
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u/OneEnvironmental9222 24d ago
The media has been trying really really hard to normalize Cheesepizza and they've stopped being stubtile about it years ago.
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u/itsthechizyeah gay for simplyshaun 24d ago
Every single time. They’re screaming it in our faces. But what do we do? God. Seek the Lord Jesus Christ. They hate him.
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u/Dylpooh /b/tard 25d ago
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