Kevin Spacey Unmasked

Power, sociopathy, and Hollywood. What's new? Inseparable. I notice Kevin's team are clearly online here trying to vote down all of the positive reviews. Fanboyism and hero worship is such a classless American trait.

The anecdotes of people who Kevin manipulated into attempting sexual encounters with is just a common theme in Hollywood. What did I take away from this documentary? That Kevin clearly had a dysfunctional view of life, sex, boundaries, and interpersonal relationships. Perhaps if he had sought quality help for himself at a much younger age, he'd still be around today, acting, and not trying to initiate abusive relationships. Unfortunately for victims of severely dysfunctional parenting, like Kevin, it becomes a sad existence.

I don't know why I watched Spacey Unmasked. If you've been assaulted, go to the police. Blatant hit jobs like this can dilute honest advocacy to promote safety in the world. Is the goal to cancel Kevin Spacey for being a sexual miscreant-deviant-creep? Has he not already been cancelled 1000 times over? Has his career not fallen off a cliff since House of Cards? I'd be shocked if he managed to ever book another major role, forget about matching his past success. I also found this series to be unwatchable since the sources are mostly actors themselves. I can't get out of my head that even they could be reading lines on behalf of a personal nemesis of Spacey's. This is Hollywood, after all. I know they're not donating the profits to charity.

Sexual misconduct is serious. Go to the POLICE. Don't go peddling your story to HBO or the National Enquirer or some other tabloid in the hopes of making a buck. And this isn't to defend alleged predators like Spacey, Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson or anyone else. Far from it. These documentaries exploit a legitimate problem in society. They're more to give audiences the illusion that we're doing something by watching, rather than being actual campaigns that lead to justice for victims. If you truly want to help the cause, volunteer; donate to NGOs in the protection sector; support bills that clamp down on abuse at home, at school and in the workplace; etc. Nobody qualifies as an "ally" just because they produced/watched juicy gossip about Oscar winners on Max.

It frightens me that we live in a world, where "journalism" of this kind, is becoming the norm. Zero accountability. Zero balance. Zero duty of care. The producers were no doubt banking on Spacey being convicted when they first pitched the idea to the execs. We now know that Spacey was cleared of any criminal activity, and a show that was probably intended to be an exposè, showing that his "offences" went far deeper than we could ever imagine, is nothing more than exploitation of a group of men, who each have their own truths regarding their encounters with Spacey, but we will never know which one of their stories were true recollections or like those in the criminal cases (misrecollecrions at best, lies at worst), and we certainly will never get a counterpoint from Spacey or indeed anyone else to corroborate or contest the accounts in the show. I don't even blame the producers, it's the fault of the Channel 4 commissioning editors, chasing exploitative stories that get clicks and eyeballs online. Whether you find the men's stories credible, is not the question that needs answered, it's whether you can trust a production that manipulates the audience so blatantly, cutting the interviews to create tension and drama, and not giving an innocent man a right to reply (according to Spacey himself, he was only sent an abbreviated transcript, with no names, pictures and little or no context). And why wouldn't the police investigate the men's claims, in the UK they certainly have the power to investigate concerns Channel 4 execs may have had that crimes had been committed, yet no investigations were made, suggesting Channel 4 didn't truly belive the men, showing total disregard for their mental health in pursuit of ratings. I gave it 3, not 1 out of 10 because the interview sets were well dressed and lit... but everything else was an exploitative mess, the Channel 4 I used to know and love is a wreck that should be broken up and sold for parts!

This is a really well-made documentary. You recognize Spacey is a manipulative predatory narcissist who has no regard for any of his victims or the harm he causes others. He only cares about himself and what he can exploit from others.

When people hear about sexual assault, they tend to believe it is only valid if it involves violence. However, this documentary goes to great lengths to demonstrate that abuse of this nature, even if it is "only a kiss, only a rub, only a touch," is soul-crushing to the victim. It chips away at your sense of worth and dignity, it damages you from within.

The men explain their experiences with this serial predator in raw detail. They have compassion and empathy for their predator, and like many victims do, they seek understanding for their predator, which stems from guilt.

Any woman in the world can relate to the stories these male victims tell about Kevin Spacey and what emotional turmoil they went through from these experiences. There is really no difference at all in the psychological impact of these cases to what women experience. Women go through the same a hundred times throughout their lives, being degraded, humiliated, and treated as if they have no value as humans. I was astonished by how similar the emotional and mental reactions of male victims were to those of female victims.

Whether you are a man or woman, sexual abuse is soul abuse. It harms your psyche more than your body. And this kind of indifference and disrespect for another person is highly hurtful on a deeper level than mere emotions, and damages ones self-worth.

Today, we witness a significant increase in women who have lost their sense of self-respect and will do any humiliation for money or opportunity. Watching this documentary I realised that if we mistreat and degrade people repeatedly in their lives, these victims begin to feel worthless and this begins to shape their lives. And finally, they surrender to this feeling of not being valued or worthy of anything, losing themselves in the process.

We have men like Kevin Spacey, Andrew Tate, Rich Cooper, and others who teach millions of other men to despise, demean, and destroy their male or female targets out of sheer cruelty, with little regard for the long-term effects on their victims' psyche. The social repercussions are long-term severe.

Humans are inherently sensitive creatures. We must not overstep the boundaries of what makes us human and helps us feel connected to ourselves.

I think the documentary so far, two episodes, is shocking to say the least. This type of behavior is probably more common than people think. The industry is tough and people do pull power plays on people to get what they want. The Documentary is based on a number of men that haven't been to court, but lives have been negatively affected by the interactions with this person. Mr. Spacey's up bringing seems to be at his core, you have to watch to see what I am referring too. I was struck by the look in the eyes of Mr. Spacey, they to me anyway look evil. Sorry, but watching this, I can't imagine that he is not more like his character in Seven than how he is portrayed on screen doing interviews or those creepy YouTube videos. I have never watched House of Cards, figured I would get around to it in time, but I won't watch anything with him in it. I felt very bad for the people trying to get into the business and being preyed upon by people like this. It's really sad and life changing for the victims. Watch the first episode, and you will feel like you need to go scrub with soap in the shower.