Monday, 15 December 2008

Preview: Chosen

For those in the UK, I highly recommend tonight's Channel 4 documentary 'Chosen'. I caught it earlier in the year when it was broadcast on More 4 and it is exceptional. It's a very simply made documentary, in which three men, now in middle age, talk with extraordinary honesty and articulacy about their experiences of being sexually abused at prep school. As the film tells us, 3 in 20 children are abused at UK schools, so it's an important film, as well as a desperately sad one. Please make the effort to see it, even if it sounds like a gruelling watch for a Monday night - it's rare that a film of such good quality makes it onto our screens.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am watching this right now, on your recommendation (I probably would have watched something else)

It's excellent so far, though no exactly "easy" going. But then I wouldn't have expected that.