Allen vs. Farrow - HBO/HBO Max *spoilers*

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I watched this last night, and it's really disturbing. Now, I will preface this by saying that I have been a fan of Woody Allen movies for sometime and I only know peripherally about his relationship with Mia's adopted daughter Soon-Yi, but I didn't know anything about his relationship with this younger adopted daughter. At first he just seemed like an over protective dad to her, then, yes it got weird, at least based on the interviews with her, Mia and their friend. I was curious to see who produced this but I am unsure of the connection between the producers and either the Allen or Farrow camp, if any. But it's clear to me that this is a fairly one sided account. I have no doubt that Allen is a creepy dude, but the only side of this story we are getting is from Farrow, the daughter and her camp. The only thing we are hearing from Allen is excerpts from his autobiography about the situation. He's still together with Soon Yi, they've been married a long time now, have kids of their own, so there must have been something legitimate between them. But the whole situation is just weird. Mia, to me is kind of weird and creepy as well. I'd like to hear from both sides before I draw a complete conclusions.

Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn Respond to 'Allen v. Farrow' Filmmakers: "These Documentarians Had No Interest in the Truth"

 

Oh he's plenty weird. But plenty of older guys fall for younger women, and she wasn't legally adopted by him. And like I said they are STILL married years later, so it's not like he did it as a weird kinky fling. But anyway, I'll keep watching and maybe there's absolutely more creepy stuff that will change my mind.

 

I read the Daily Beast article, at least most of it. Mia, was 21 when she started her relationship the Frank Sinatra who was in his mid 50s. Does that make Sinatra a creep? The whole story is strange, and maybe there's some truth to both sides. Some how a woman who adopts 15 kids is not exactly a normal situation either. There's definitely some creep on both sides.

 

I did, and I'm not saying he isn't creepy. I'm just saying that Mia is equally creepy if not MORE creepy and that it's quite possible she coerced Dylan into saying the things she did about him (remember she was very young and she did what mommy said to do). And Mia, according the DB article broke up Andre Previn's marriage when she was young and he was older, was not exactly faithful to Allen when they were together (insinuating that Ronan is Sinatra's child, not Woody's and he was in his 70s while she was in her 40s.). There's a lot of creep to go around. So it's hard to take what Mia is saying with much credibility either. Not saying he didn't do it, but I'm not saying he did either. I don't know any more than any of us do. Read the DB article.

 

Well that's the side of the story that Mia tells in the documentary. Parents can be very close with their kids, have favorites and so forth, but that doesn't make them child molesters. My gut tells me that Mia wasn't happy about Woody and Soon-Yi (whether it's about the family dynamic or she's just a woman scorned, we don't know) and made this up about Woody. But to be honest, I don't know any more than you do.

 

Except Soon-Yi isn't Woody's step daughter. She's Mia's adopted daughter with Previn. He never married Mia or adopted most of the other kids that were there before she met Woody. The question to me is, how close was he with Soon-Yi? With so many kids in the house, it's possible that he had very little do with her. As per Soon-Yi, all she considered Woody was that she was Mom's boyfriend. He didn't even stay over. He started seeing her when she was of legal age, and having nude pictures of her is not a crime, as you said. Again, there's lots of stories of people dating a mom and then falling for mom's daughter. I guess you can consider that creepy in a way, but the Soon-Yi situation is no different really. If she was adopted by him (i.e. his legal daughter), I'd agree it's more creepy.