Bill Cosby: Walking Free

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It's not bad overall however it comes in at 1 hour and 18 minutes and it should have been about 45 minutes. We get so much padding. Long shots of Bill walking by the courthouse. There's lots of this. We have to see every statement by the victims. Terrible incident but is it necessary to see everything? There are absolutely pointless images. They're talking about Bill going to the store and we see old black and white film of African Americans in a store. They talk about his mom being a maid and we see old footage of a black maid (not his mom) and his dad was in the navy and the same type of footage. It's almost insulting. If you don't have actual footage of what you're talking about don't just show random black people in its place. There are pointless shots while narration goes on - we see a lot of an eyeball - I don't get that one. Lots of shots of pills being manufactured and multiple other annoying shots that don't fit the narration. Tons of padding here. The thing is called "Walking free" and his walking free doesn't even happen until the last four minutes of the documentary. There really isn't anything about the backlash of his going free. They show his attorneys claiming he's been vindicated (he wasn't, he got off on a technicality). We do get one person pointing out the victims weren't proven false and that again, Cosby just got off on a technicality. You get the sense the makers are on Cosby's side or at least that's what I got but there's no question he was guilty. He was found guilty and that will be documented forever. I think this is a good story that needs to be told, I hope a better documentary comes along to tell it.

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