By the Way, Woody Allen Is Innocent

Rick Worley shows us in this excellent and informative essay not only how innocent Woody Allen is, but the dangers of the persistent groupthink mentality of today's culture that is all too eager to uphold a narrative over facts.

A must watch for anyone interested in the chaos of the Farrow household, and the petty mudslinging tactics used to sully the reputation of one of our greatest writers.

I say "Amazing Revelations," but that is only because I, like most, have spent years assuming the tidbits and nuggets of the story I have heard in the periphery, are in fact the whole and true story. This epic work of detailed and sourced facts and timelines means the revelations are actually that I, like most, were operating under false assumptions. It is simultaneously enlightening and frightening to learn the truth about what has been a decades-long, and ongoing, take-down of an artist falsely accused. This is most-certainly the type of analysis that should be viewed by anyone struggling to accept Woody Allen despite the accusations against him, and should be required viewing for those who think him guilty.

Rick Worley did this documentary all by himself! And the film is very clear about Woody Allen's accusations: he's innocent and everybody owes him an apology! Thank for this, Rick! Woody Allen is one of the best directores and writers of history and he deserves the truth.

This film marvelously cuts through the hysteria and moral panic surrounding the allegations against Woody Allen for which the evidence is as thin as gossamer. I have long suspected Woody Allen was almost certainly innocent but this film (and the writings of Robert Weide and others) fully anchored all the general intuitions I had in that direction. Watching it is like watching a fog lift on an early morning.

Far superior to the horribly biased HBO documentary.