to think this should not be allowed

[PomPomBearGrylls]

when a film company thinks it is acceptable to make fun and money from a poor little girl's suffering under the guise of 'entertainment'😥
Shannon Mathews the movie

Absolutely inappropriate. Honestly surprised it has been allowed to be created and not cancelled by public backlash.

This is absolutely awful.

WTAF?!

I've actually seen it. It's a touchy subject for sure, and certainly not for everyone. The humour is dark. But it is well written and there are some really funny bits. It's taking the micky out of the Mom, the delusional plan to make £50k, and her obsession about being on TV. Shannon is not mocked and does not appear as a physical character.
Bad taste, done tastefully. That said, it'll still get slammed by a load of people who are offended at what they think it's about.

It doesn't matter if it's not about what people think it's about it's still awful. Shannon Matthews was used and abused by her mother and a man for financial gain and was removed from their care by social services and has had to live her life under an assumed identity.

Given the lengths went to to protect her identity, I can't imagine that her permission was sought or received to use her name and life for profit. I'd love to be wrong though.

The guy who wrote it calls himself Kunt so I suppose we can't really be surprised.

How can anyone comment & make judgement about something they haven’t seen or heard? Am I wrong?
Is this the Daily Mail?
it’s like the Jonathan Ross / Russell Brand radio show with the Andrew Sachs answerphone prank. Tens of thousands of people complained yet very few heard it, just used hearsay & jumped on the bandwagon.
I am truly disgusted with those bandwagon jumpers! Signed, Disgruntled of Norfolk

Because even if this was the most sympathetic, heart-rending, genius level, compelling piece of art it is still based on the life and uses the name of a real life abuse abuse victim who WAS FORCED TO CHANGE HER IDENTITY as a child. Unless it was written by her or with her express permission it is parasitic.

Wrong, having seen it, it is not about her.
It’s about Karen, Craig & Michael.

Did you & the folks here make uproar about the Sheridan Smith drama “The Moorside”? 🤔 Probably Not!

It's got her fucking name in the title.

You'd have to be a fucking weirdo to watch it.

You need to calm yourself down poppet! No need for profanities.

im guessing, “Karen Matthews, Craig Meehan & Michael Donovan, the Musical, the Movie” doesn’t roll off the tongue.

Says the person defending a "musical" based on child abuse by a man called Kunt. 🤣🤣

And "Shannon Matthews, The Musical, The Movie" is just such a clever and snappy title!?

I can remember a video circling of a mock up of the Grenfell fire, made during a bonfire party. They faced criminal charges. There were seven children abused in the Mathew's case and then further sexual offences and indecent/sexual images of children of all the men involved. There's nothing funny about it. Even Jeremy Kyle wouldn't have made entertainment out of the abuse of children. I think that there is less reaction when it's the, not-very-bright lower WC involved. There's no way that material like this play won't set back the recovery of the children. On that basis, it shouldn't be allowed.

@CsideMilf ugh with the poppet , so patronizing 🤮

Exactly, so they used the name of an abused child to promote it instead because it 'rolls off the tongue' better.

It's grim. Made by the hard of thinking for the hard of thinking.

I’m marine how Shannon now an adult would feel finding out or seeing this? Very sad.

Imagine

"Children" You do realise that any child involved is at least in their twenties now? That's just how age works. Not saying it makes it right or wrong, just choosing to be pedantic.

Almost as weird as feeling the need to be publicly offended on a forum using a pseudonym.
There's been a bunch of books and dramatisations about this, just like every other tragedy. There will always be dark humour. Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Carr, etc.

Poor girl was drugged and restrained the whole time. She was also drugged upto 20 months before the kidnapping happened. I wonder why they were drugging her ? Karen mathews bf was a nonce. Poor children.

@BarryGw dark humour ? Or just being a cunt?

Yup. Just being a cunt.

I don't know, personally, I find anyone watching a "musical" based around the nonces that sexually abused children then using an abuse victim's name in the fucking title just a little unhinged. But hey, maybe we're the weirdos for being offended by people using victims of CSA to make money.