Predators

As a lot of other reviewers have stated this is a very odd perspective. The documentary comes across as trying to find sympathy for the child predators. Some reviewers have said it's anti leo,I don't see that, but it's definitely trying to humanize the men caught trying to have relations with children. It paints Chris Hanson in a pretty poor light. Overall it was hard to watch.

I was very disturbed by the attempted narrative that this documentary filmmaker was trying to portray in this movie. I understand that he was trying to show the human side of pedophiles, by attempting to answer the question of why they do what they do. What is their motivation. Do they deserve to have their lives destroyed for their actions and our entertainment. In short, well, yes, yes they do. They don't get to have our sympathy for their criminal impulses. There is a reason this crime is so repulsive to society, as it is one of the most damaging things imaginable.

It was nice to see Chris Hanson doing what he does best and I think he held himself up so well during the interview. I will never tire of this mans voice. The director completely and utterly failed to convince the audience Chris Hanson had done anything wrong, and his condescending "you are free to go" line was cringey and forced. Overall, this movie failed on many levels.

Oddly they decided to be critical of the show and be pro predator. They feel it's ok to try and get with minors or something, not sure. The film does have some good footage that wasn't aired on television back in 2004-2007. It's weird to watch predators framed in a positive light like this film decided to do.

So first of all this is presented in a way to say "the predator " is not only a human being but in this case a victim - allow me to show you the ways . (That is what is presented in the documentary.) it is quite funny how we see the meetings (the confrontations) with carefully edited clips and get small carefully worded parts of these investigations but we don't get to see the actual chat logs. One of the biggest disgusting factors is the chat logs these people have with the "minors" . Everything they say gets so depraved and disgusting, but the agenda is clear in this film. Don't show the chats because that will sway people away from the bias of the documentary .

In the film we are presented with a take down with Chris Hanson where there was an 18 year old who went after a 15 year old . Now this isn't illegal in some states but in the state they were in it was. Now it shows the family and how it impacted the boys life . Tragic . But one thing they did NOT touch on is what the boy was charged with and how Take down with Chris Hanson operates . That show doesn't just talk to people and then get a meet up situation. No they said that they want to make sure enough crime is committed. So everyone picked up from their new show "is out to pay for sex from a minor" so this 18 year old knew this was a 15 year old selling her body for sex . So that's why the sexually charged conversation can happen and such. So this was not just a casual meet up and friendship growing and love interest. This was a man just looking to have underage sex and that's it. (Was this presented in the documentary) No. We didn't get all the facts because facts for this documentary is dangerous for the bias opinion .

I watch these shows they criticize and I've seen Chris Hanson really feel bad for the people he talks to and it's not until he re reads the chat logs to the predators face that the dangerous nature of the person comes back.

You can feel empathy for these people who are the predators but to just paint them in the light as victims of a show capitalizing off their crime being broadcasted and them losing everything because of it - isn't completely right. Why are people recording their take downs ? Well so they can find more take downs to get more bad people off the street. Same thing like Mr beast giving people free surgery for the blind so they can see or building wells in Africa and houses- if he didn't record them he would be able to do them.

Doing a service to help people and capture bad people can be entertainment but also trying to understand why people prey upon children is the point as well. The director behind the documentary had an agenda and it's pathetic that he is so biased and hides the facts from the audience . Only the audience members who have never seen or looked into the facts of the shows will be persuaded here.

This is such a strange take on people who want to have sex with children. Look at all of the issues Nickelodeon had with grooming, this is the same company. Why would you side with people who want to hurt kids? Anyways this show stinks. The DA who killed himself is sad but he had already broken the law. He should have served his time. The show didn't force him to do anything, he made every choice.