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Pervert Park

Can some things never be forgiven?

Florida Justice Transitions, a non-profit based in St. Petersburg, is home to 120 convicted sex offenders. Set up much like a trailer park, it is also pejoratively known as “Pervert Park.” In the movie of the same name, husband and wife duo Frida and Lasse Barkfors take us behind the fence of a community that is—figuratively and literally—outcast, as Florida law prohibits the convicts from coming within 1000 feet of any public space that is frequented by children.

Pervert Park pulls the veil off a community that is largely demonized, and attempts to lend a human face to what society has morally evicted. But Pervert Park is not a film about forgiveness. It is a film about how some individuals live with the consequences of their (terrible) choices. And in doing so, it inevitably leads one to asks oneself if there are some things that cannot—or should not—be forgiven.