Moses Farrow defends Woody Allen

#IBelieveMoses

So Mia is literally worse than Nurse Ratched.

LMAO at Mia and her lying ways. There's one thing I hate and that's a bully. I have seen plenty of them at my job and one thing they hate is a person with integrity. Dylan should be ashamed of herself for continuing to seek approval from Mia and lying on Woody. It really is quite sad. I will be glad when she tells the truth and I hope Woody is still alive when she tells it.

There is another Previn song on that same record -  "With My Daddy In The Attic" -  that has long since been discussed - and even Allen has said this - as the template where Farrow concocted the "story" to begin with - that Farrow just appropriated the dark and sad story told in that song, and laid the fictional/delusional story of Allen molesting Dylan on top of it.

She would be using the song as a big F-You to them both (and as an inside joke to Dory & Woody) the song even mentions "And he’ll play his clarinet when I despair" which of course fits with Allen (and Andre Previn) perfectly - though the song was written many years before Allen was involved - so that leads a lot of people to believe Farrow had some kind of psychological breakdown where she linked Allen, and the worst accusations she could level of him, into that songs twisted subject matter.

It is sort of either just an interesting goofy coincidental side note or a psychological smoking gun..........

"My sister's allegation is backed by a significant body of credible evidence, including physical evidence and eyewitnesses to abuse"


The added italics there are mine.

I don't see it that way, but judge for yourself the veracity of that piece in Ronan's statement (side note: Moses referred to "Ronan" by his given name, Satchel, in his essay - it is almost unbelievable that one son grew up to be a writer, the other a therapist).

And of course this barely gets any attention on the media. Makes the blood boil.

It's a fucked up situation all around, but I do believe you can invalidate the story without invalidating the abuse itself. Even the people who side with Allen (at least the large majority of them, including Moses) still make a point to stress that they don't believe Dylan is lying, just that she's a victim of a different nature of abuse. You can argue whether that's insensitive to her and her ability to judge things, but it is what it is. Parents manipulating children and drumming abuse into them is a far more common occurrence than we might be comfortable to admit.

It's a terribly thorny issue either way, and it's made even worse by the now increased media circus surrounding it-- which to be honest, must do more harm to Dylan than anonymous cinephiles supporting Allen's films ever could. The way Mia and now Ronan have spent years weaponizing her pain in their crusade to bring Allen down has forced her to relive that trauma a hundred times over under intense public scrutiny, and I've always thought that there's something remarkably icky about that. It's one thing for adult, discerning victims like Rose McGowan to make use of their public image to lead the cause and bring down their abusers, because they can choose to employ their time and efforts in whatever way they see fit. It's up to them to decide if they're willing to subject themselves to everything that comes with it. It's a completely different situation for a young victim like Dylan to be put under the spotlight year in year out from the age of 7 by a mother and brother who both insist on making this case as loud, public and scandalous as possible. I know this is entering a very unsavory area of the discussion, but the way the media treats the entire debacle is insidious in more ways than one, and Dylan's unrelenting exposure is among them.

I believe she does and she is a victim of a lying mother. Mia will never come clean. Let's get real here. What type of mother would continue to work for the man who molested her daughter afterwards.

One thing is that whenever Ronan and even Dylan Farrow talk about this it always goes hand in hand with the Soon-Yi stuff, even though those two things have nothing to do with each other. It's almost an indirect admission that this is just to get back at him for that.

But, as another poster alluded to, even if you want to take the "always believe the victim" stance, if you do that on behalf of Dylan here you're basically denying allegations from Mia Farrow's other children that she tried to brainwash them against Allen with abuse.