“I really just never felt like anybody loved me.”

Cyntoia Brown was imprisoned for 15 years after shooting a man in self-defense when he was trying to assault her. she was 16, manipulated into sex trafficking by her much older bf and was condemned as a violent prostitute at the trial. she never even had a chance because she was a young woman and she was black.

People are upset that this white male director is profiting off Cyntoia don’t understand the following:

1) How documentary works. It’s unethical to pay subjects in a documentary. Paying subjects makes them actors and can influence them. Documentary is about enlightenment, not entertainment. 

2) 100% Cyntoia would not be free today without his footage. His first doc of her was screened for her sentencing AND is responsible for the whole world knowing Cyntoia’s name. He dedicated over a decade to freeing her. Documentary making is not easy or cheap. 

Cyntoia has an income. It’s not the same as Paris is Burning. Lower your pitchforks.

very frustrating that more emphasis wasn't put on the extent of her abuse, and that nobody really seemed to care that she was 16-years-old being trafficked by an older man. also for all the things social media is, it is very powerful in drawing attention to things that otherwise would have been swept under the carpet. i wonder what would have happened to cyntoia if the media storm hadn't made her case near impossible to ignore.

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It's good to know cyntoia and her side of the story. The doc was surprisingly emotional. I'm glad that ppl didn't give up on her, all these years.

She killed her fucking rapist 💛

Hmmm. There’s something big missing from here, something missing that stops it from having that real punch that makes a true-crime documentary great. It’s an enthralling story, as well as an infuriating one, but I can’t help but feel it could’ve been better somehow.

Interesting case but as a film I can't say I enjoyed it or was even glad I watched it, apart from when it delved into issues of sexual abuse, which wasn't for very long.

i find this case incredibly interesting but the actual documentary was subpar

we all deserve a second chance right?

Very good documentary!

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Dava ve Cyntoia’nın hikayesi ilgi çekici ama bunu iyi bir belgesele dönüştürememişler, TLC’de yayınlanan belgeseller kalitesinde.

it was a tad long and draining to watch as it was very emotional but the ending made it so worth it. people deserve second chances <3

TW // Rape

“But you know you can use the word “rape” in many ways, because I feel like all of us has been raped of our life when this incident happened (to me).”

I found the documentary very manipulative. It's completely like a "social justice worior" propaganda documentary. It always keep saying same staff about her life and choses she made. But it's not provide the knowledge of her innocence. Just judge the social structure of American society by using her story.

Before watching this I was under the impression of dozens of Reddit posts about this case (which quite frankly, were pretty stupid, thinking about it now), but knowing all that shit Cyntoia had gone through, by the end of the documentary, I can speak for all of us when I say that in reality: we’d all do the same.

While I wish they had covered specific aspects of her life more rather than painting her as a two-dimensional entity, this was solid, but I do kind of wish it was a miniseries because it was quite fast-paced.

I went on her Instagram and seeing how happy and successful she is now made me really proud. I can’t even imagine how much she could do if she was released  from prison much earlier.

Barebones documentary runs on pure compassion for this woman. Very dry, but the firsthand video footage is revealing enough to be interesting to anyone gripped with Cyntoia Brown’s story.

This poor girl has such a rough childhood and I just want to give her a hug. I’m surprised I never heard about this, especially since it was trending on Twitter at one point. This is an extremely sad story of what can happen to a girl who was born without a chance. It does have a very nice resolution, but we never find out if the murder she committed was self defense or not. Rating - 3/5 = Good documentary.

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