In a world in which the truth is bandied about, and nothing seems to be definitive, it’s refreshing to watch this four-hour, four-part HBO series, originally aired earlier this year. In methodical and comprehensive fashion, the long-running legal wrangling between Woody Allen and Mia Farrow over his alleged molestation of seven-year old Dylan Farrow is explored.

The telecast is absorbing for anyone who’s seen more than one Woody Allen movie, knows anything about the controversy, or has any interest in coming to resolution.

Woody Allen Revealed

Much of the broadcast features Dylan, now 35, married, with a child of her own. As she reflects back on her experience at age 7, she is coherent and credible. Mia Farrow, who starred in 13 Allen films, comes off as more balanced than the press has allowed us to see in nearly three decades.

Through his own words and deeds, Woody Allen, birth name Allen Konigsberg, reveals himself: He was obsessed with the young Dylan. He spent much time alone with her. He couldn’t keep his hands off of her. He claims that he never ‘took her up to the attic,’ there was ‘no train set’ there, and that everyone who has made such observations is wrong. Yet, we learn about the train set in the attic, and that other Allen contentions are wrong. His own recorded words betray him.

Why was Allen shielded for so long, by so many media outlets? He made so many movies in and about New York, that he became a favorite son, and easily one of New York’s most popular celebrities. He brought jobs and economic activity and, in virtually every movie, he showed the upside of New York. Few people wanted to believe he was guilty.

Normalizing His Obsessions

All of Allen’s 60+ films, original scripts, notes, and everything related to the making of his movies is archived at Princeton University, as other producers and directors have their film works archived at other universities.

During the telecast, the curator at Princeton makes a compelling observation: Most of Allen’s films focus on an older man with a younger woman, and Allen has been grooming us for 50-plus years to accept his world view. Following his Oscar winning film in 1978, Annie Hall, Allen’s next film was Manhattan, which many people regard as his best, or certainly among his best.

Manhattan depicts the 45 year-old Allen as dating a 17 year-old, portrayed by Mariel Hemingway. This film, like so many of his others, is Allen’s attempt to normalize his preoccupation with vastly younger women. He married Soon-yi, the adopted daughter of his then-girlfriend, Mia Farrow, when he was 56 and she was 21. He met Soon-yi when he was 53 and she was 18.

In Woody Allen films such as Crimes and Misdemeanors, we see Martin Landau as an older ophthalmologist in a relationship with airline attendant and mistress Anjelica Huston, some 20+ years younger. In other Allen films, the same scenario plays out.

A Conclusive Conclusion

After watching all four one-hour episodes in a single night, it became obvious that Allen, now age 85, is guilty. He has used his money, power, and influence to portray himself as something that he is not.

While dating Mia Farrow for 12 years, he steadfastly maintained that he didn’t want to provide care for her children. Yet, once the allegations related to Dylan surfaced, Allen takes Farrow to court to gain custody of three of her nine children: Moses Farrow, an older Asian boy that Mia adopted; Ronan Farrow, Allen’s only biological son; and Dylan Farrow, the young daughter at the center of the controversy.

I recall that during the custody trial, the presiding judge asked Allen if he could name any of Dylan’s classmates or neighborhood friends. He could not. He could not name any friends of Ronan Farrow or of Moses Farrow. Further, Allen had never taken any of their children to the dentist or for a haircut. Not one of the children had ever stayed overnight at Allen’s apartment.

Neurosis Beyond Screen Portrayals

What kind of person would take a woman to court to claim custody of three of her children, of whom he knows nearly nothing? This is the kind of man that Woody Allen was and is: a faker, a charlatan, and so neurotic that the elements of his neurosis revealed in his movies don’t even begin to describe his daily afflictions.

Once Ronan Farrow, now a renowned investigative reporter, weighs in, and defends Dylan’s assertions, Allen’s 29-year ruse is vanquished.

Allen is a pedophile with zero jail time. The crowning grace is that he’ll go to his grave knowing that he’s been exposed. He cannot spin the voluminous amount of information and testimony presented; a conclusive body of evidence that lays out the truth for all to see.

Concise and Comprehensive

If only HBO and other major producers would feature comprehensive exposés of, say, James Comey, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, Andrew Weissman, Robert Mueller, James Clapper, Christopher Steele, Bruce Orr, Susan Rice, John Podesta, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid.

Or Jerry Nadler, Ilhan Omar, Robert Byrd, Christopher Wray, Jeff Zucker, Christine Blasey Ford, Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo, or maybe Hunter Biden. You know, scoundrels like those.

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