Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Some Guy Name As some of the other reviews will unintentionally tell you, if you don't already feel sympathetic to registered sex offenders who are shunned by society, this documentary will do little to change any of that. Sure, flashing children on the street is not the same as molesting your own child for years on end. They don't merit the same reaction from society - that is true. But this documentary does nothing but present a narrative with which we aren't already familiar. Sex offenders were so often victims of trauma themselves, violence breeds violence, when in Rome, etc., etc. But child abuse is wrong!, etc., etc. To make matters worse, the offenders didn't seem to care about the victims, they only wanted to protect their own reputation - leading me to ask the wrong questions, the ones the documentary wanted me to avoid. Like, what kind of therapy they were receiving? How can they move along without true regret? What exactly have they learned? The place was only run by other sex offenders, should they even be giving each other therapy? What I really wanted from this documentary, was a more objective look at what happens to the offender ones they have served their time in prison. I wanted the documentary to tell us how poor - on average - their chances of living a normal life afterwards would be. Maybe compare this to what happens murderers, or drug dealers, etc., to present this as the complex moral issue it truly is. Sure, we can torment the offenders 'till the day they die, but what good will it do? Is it really that reasonable to prevent these people from becoming contributing members of society? Isn't it a waste of human life, or just plain ressources, to let them be outcasts forever and ever? I think so. This problem won't be solved by looking away, no problem ever will, no matter how ugly it is. I wish people would talk about pedophilia more often. I wish there were ressources for people who had these wrong thoughts, I wish they were allowed to talk about them - so we could prevent them from taking actions, so we could give them the mental strength to do right. But the documentary made a bad case for this, focused on the wrong ways to emit sympathy, and a murky way of presenting facts. It didn't provoke the kind of rational thought that would counter the terrifying feeling of knowing, that you are looking at a room full of people who have probably raped someone. Quite a shame, really. This documentary gets 6 stars, primarily because it is one of the only ones of it's kind.

misscath-02668 I found it very hard to sit through this. Very one sided and slanted. While it might be possible for a small percentage of these people to be rehabilitated, I believe most will not. If living away from other people will help, then I think it should be done. What I don't see in many of these people is any kind of real remorse, with the exception of the woman. They all sit around and bitch about how no one will hire them. Never once do you hear anything about how they harmed their young victim, possibly for life. Have they tried to make any amends to their victims? None of that is discussed. I don't have children and if I did I would feel little compassion for these folks. I think they need to live in their own communities, with no contact with society. You did the crime, I don't care if you were abused, I know people who suffered sexual abuse and they did not go on to victimize others. I do hope some of them will see the light and not go on to re-offend.

runamokprods This is an empathetic documentary portrait of a group of convicted sex offenders who live together in a trailer park because laws restricting where they can live after release from prison has made it almost impossible to find shelter. The residents support each other in a society that has spurned them. We sit in on their group therapy sessions which are a mix of heartbreaking and chilling. It's not easy to watch someone – even someone who seems to feel terrible remorse – relate the story of how he came to rape a 5 year old girl. But it's also powerful and sad to realize that almost to a person, all these men (and a couple of women) were themselves terribly sexually abused as children. And that one of their children whom they abused has now gone on to be convicted of a sex crime as well. The film posits that these people are certainly criminals, but they are also certainly victims as well, and that only through compassionate treatment can the cycle be broken. It also makes clear that lumping so many offenders with crimes of wildly different seriousness in the same heading of 'registered sex offender', publishing their names and addresses, not allowing them to live or work in huge swaths of the areas they live in is - for many - a highly unfair practice, and actually endanger all the offenders, allowing those out to frighten or harm them easy access. It's an uncomfortable film to watch – it's hard to find oneself empathetic to people who have done terrible things. But it's also an important questioning of how we treat other human beings, no matter what their past holds. One flaw - I was frustrated that the film sites statistics that go against what most of us have heard so many times – stating that sex criminals are actually among the least likely to offend again, not the most – but then fails to say where those statistics come from, or why most people have heard the opposite. If you're going to challenge people's fears and conventional wisdom, you need more than an unattributed title card.

CentralStateProductions Lock your Doors.. hide the Kids?"I screened this Film as part the 2015 Florida Film Festival." The State of Florida has decided that all Sex Violent Predators as well as Offenders be lumped together and to dump them off into places such as the subject of this Film "Pervert Park". My overview here is based on what is happening in my own County (Orange) where there are 1000 homeless and many Registered Offenders with no place to live. Pervert Park focus's is in the reality of this Nationwide "Witchhunt". An entire Society of Humans that have been captured, many wrongly accused and are being led to the Stake. This is the only Film that has had the guts to not only look at the nature of Sexual Crimes against Children but also the lower tiered Non Violent Crimes that put Offenders on Registrations for Life as well. At the end credits when several audience members stood up and clapped, I did not know if they were applauding the Film and its content or wanted themselves to take justice in their own hands to bestow violence against the Sex Offenders. Its shock value is everlasting! JEV 2015