There are few conversational taboos more likely to cause arguments than sex offenders. For some, the mere mention of their existence is enough to make blood boil, let alone the murderous rage that emerges within others when the subject even tiptoes around children as the victim. It’s a polarizing topic, and one that makes recent inquiries that bring out the humanity behind these people both scarce and important.
Even beyond the delicacy of the subject matter, it presents other difficulties in understanding people who are coming from a nearly endless permutations of factors, personal or otherwise. The best thing that can be said about Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors’ documentary, Pervert Park, is that it doesn’t succumb to generalizations about its subjects, a small sampling of former sex offenders now living together in a community in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Known as the Florida Justice Transitions Housing Program, the neighborhood houses nearly 120 rehabilitating offenders.
Even beyond the delicacy of the subject matter, it presents other difficulties in understanding people who are coming from a nearly endless permutations of factors, personal or otherwise. The best thing that can be said about Frida Barkfors and Lasse Barkfors’ documentary, Pervert Park, is that it doesn’t succumb to generalizations about its subjects, a small sampling of former sex offenders now living together in a community in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Known as the Florida Justice Transitions Housing Program, the neighborhood houses nearly 120 rehabilitating offenders.
- 5/20/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
While filmmakers haven’t been afraid of making sexual abuse the center of numerous fiction films of varying quality, there have been very few documentary films revolving around sexual abuse with even fewer looking at those who commit these heinous acts. An easy subject to turn into a histrionic meditation on the darkest reaches of humanity, not only is the new film from husband and wife duo Frida and Lasse Barkfors a genuinely nuanced look at men and women who must spend the rest of their lives dealing with the abuse they have committed, but it gives true humanity to a deeply upsetting subject.
The central thread of Pervert Park is something many people may very well be completely unaware of. Florida Justice Transitions, also known as the titular “Pervert Park,” is a mobile home compound that houses roughly 120 men and women who have been convicted of sexual offenses. With...
The central thread of Pervert Park is something many people may very well be completely unaware of. Florida Justice Transitions, also known as the titular “Pervert Park,” is a mobile home compound that houses roughly 120 men and women who have been convicted of sexual offenses. With...
- 5/20/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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