I’m not sure why you’d want to do that.
Or how you would even do that.
If you’ve heard of this doc at all, then you probably know the gist of the story.
I watched this full documentary last night.
His whole life he has pretty much been entirely unable to communicate with anyone.
Not even to those who spend time with him every day.
Then along came Dr. Anna Stubblefield.
Dr. Stubblefield claims she could use “facilitated communication” to help Derrick (i.e.
The family is thrilled with the idea at first.
So it’s possible for you to see where a problem lies.
Derrick has gone his entire life without being able to communicate.
All of the sudden, this complete stranger is able to have highly intelligent conversation with him.
But conveniently enough, nobody else in his family can do it.
He can only communicate with Dr. Stubblefield guiding his hand to the letters.
So is Derrick really communicating with the world?
Or is this Anna bitch just having him say whatever the hell she wants him to.
Tell Them You Love Me is about the most fucked up documentary I’ve ever watched.
And I’ve seen a lot of them.
They especially aren’t sitting there defending their actions.
Normally when a documentary is about a rapist, the rapist isn’t interviewed in the documentary whatsoever.
I’m still not even sure if Anna thinks she’s done anything wrong.
That she has fully convinced herself the words she was making him say were actually his.
That she wanted it to be true so bad that she just lost her damn mind.
Or maybe she truly is the devil and has this extremely, extremely fucked up sexual fantasy about….
I don’t even want to try and describe what exactly that might be.
But it makes her a rapist.
In my opinion, no matter which way you slice it, the woman is a rapist.
It’s almost fucked up that Netflix is even letting her tell her side of the story.
But I can’t imagine how anybody who watches this objectively would possibly side with her.
The whole documentary is nuts.
But to even recommend this to someone seems weird.
But unfortunately, with facilitated communication, this is far from the only case of sexual assault.
I’m not going to speculate on why that happens.
I feel like I’m already WAY too far out of my comfort zone with this blog.
But there’s a lot of disgusting people out there.
You heard it here first.
And Netflix… would you mind dialing it back a bit?
How about a nice documentary about a man who saved a puppy.
I could really use a pallet cleanser
