hyped garbage

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I have seen the film and I found it to be dangerous and harmful to children and families. What this film is doing is nothing but spreading misinformation about vaccaines and autism. I feel the people are trying to make the Autism Community look like we are vaccaine damaged individual. Many people with Autism including myself, feel that these people are a bunch of hypocrites.

Mr. Wakefield, and all people associated with making this film, deserve polio. They are murderers. They must be held accountable. Children are dying because of these lying twats. If you rate this film highly, you can join them in hell. Please vaccinate your children. Please punch Nazis. Please also punch nutbars who refuse to vaccinate their children for any reason other than a compromised immune system or allergy. Fight pseudoscience and related nonsense in all of its forms. Witchcraft, acupuncture, chiropractic theory of disease, psychics, flat earthers, climate change deniers. Screw all of them. Lure them into the woods. We are dying. We are dying of stupid. They are cancer.

The creator of this movie, Andrew Wakefield, is not an against vaccination as such. On the contrary. He just claims that MMR vaccines on the market today are dangerous, and that there is a huge conspiracy going on.Basically, he targets the viewers emotions and fears for their children well being. And he does that well! It is devastating to see so many "must see" and "finally truth" comments to this movie.Why he does that? Well, apart from the obvious financial reasons (the revenue form the movie, sold books, lectures, conferences...), there are a few things he is not mentioning in the movie.He is an ex-doctor, a man behind the 1998 publication of a research that allegedly discovered a link between measles virus and autism, and 2001 scientific paper proposing a link between MMR vaccine and autism. It was proved many times after that, by a lot of laboratories around the world, that both links he claimed he discovered do not exist. It was also proved that Wakefield directly falsified the data in his "researches". For such deeds, he was barred from practicing medicine.But why would he do that? It was soon discovered by journalists that Wakefield's research was financed by a law firm who was preparing a lawsuit against MMR manufacturers. He personally received huge amounts of money from the same company. But furthermore, another journalist discovered that Wakefield applied for a patent for his own vaccine! What better way to make space for it on a market than to make people believe the existing ones are dangerous?In short, Wakefield did not want people to stop vaccinating their children. But he wanted them to stop trusting the existing MMR vaccine, for his own financial benefits. But all hell broke lose, and people massively stopped vaccinating their children in fear of autism. Fear and stupidity took over, and the results were quick to see. We had measles outbreak in Minnesota this year among the communities who refused to vaccinate their children. In Romania it was much worse - soon after the vaccination rate there dropped to record low 86%, the measles outbreak infected thousands and killed almost 20. Thanks to the dishonesty and greed of Andrew Wakefield, the children are again dying of diseases that were almost forgotten. Yes, that's how dangerous this kind of propaganda is.

Possibly a revelation to people who don't know how vaccines work, what Wakefield has done and what he has to gain from this movie, but not for the ones who do. I strongly suggest you read up on the controversies presented in the movie before watching it. Then you'll be better equipped to see through the misinformation, bias and outright lies presented.This is a movie which content can seriously hurt you and people you care about if it's left unopposed. This movie is full of lies and half truths, and goes against all scientific consensus in the field. The audience can be excused for not being able to separate fact from fiction when it comes to vaccines, but the movie makers can't. They are being intellectually dishonest here. Don't let them fool you.As a propaganda piece it's fairly well done, hence the extra star.