Lets be honest...at base level, film, poetry, lyrics, story writing, sculpture, graffiti, etc, have always been mediums used to hit home, be thought provoking, informative, exploratory, investigatory, to make us face uncomfortable truths and messages, either through pure fiction, fact, or a mixture of both.
It has opened a debate, that even those against it are entering into.
Are those people who are against the film, but are posting on here, really any better than someone who has made a film to enlighten the public? How would Denise Bulger feel stumbling across this thread, I wonder? I don't know, but neither does anyone else.
I haven't seen the whole film, but from Fairylea's link, it seems that the film makers have not imparted their opinion or an angle on anyone, unlike us mn lot. They are portraying what happend from a new and factual perspective.
We need to be more informed as a society. This film surely highlights the potential dangers of neglect or abuse, and reminds us that these children did a monstrous series of acts, but were nonetheless children, who were once upon a time innocent, vulnerable, and who were let down massively by their families.
It's too easy to say they were born evil. This ignorance enables us to bury our heads in the sand, rather than reasses how we treat and protect vulnerable children as a society.