I went into this documentary knowing absolutely nothing about it. It started off promising - it was set up to be an intriguing and heartbreaking story. Unfortunately it's lacking in substance and didn't feel like a story worth telling. That's not to say that this isn't an important story. The fault primarily lies with the way the scenes are awkwardly spliced together; it feels like there was little effort put into making a coherent film. Also, most of this documentary consists of random and unimportant moments with the Sanford family that are poorly edited together. You'd think that with 20 years of footage they would be able to put together some interesting clips related to the death of Emmanuel which is the focal point of the doc. If 30 minutes were clipped from the second half, that would be a major improvement as most of the second half drags on without a story left to tell.
I went into this documentary knowing absolutely nothing about it. It started off promising - it was set up to be an intriguing and heartbreaking story. Unfortunately it's lacking in substance and didn't feel like a story worth telling. That's not to say that this isn't an important story. The fault primarily lies with the way the scenes are awkwardly spliced together; it feels like there was little effort put into making a coherent film. Also, most of this documentary consists of random and unimportant moments with the Sanford family that are poorly edited together. You'd think that with 20 years of footage they would be able to put together some interesting clips related to the death of Emmanuel which is the focal point of the doc. If 30 minutes were clipped from the second half, that would be a major improvement as most of the second half drags on without a story left to tell.
