#Basement elisabeth fritzl now movie#

#Basement elisabeth fritzl now movie#

Furthermore, it proves once again that mainstream movie companies think that no film is complete without a romantic relationship. An 18-year-old Elisabeth was captured and imprisoned in the family’s basement and repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse and rape by her father. Elisabeth Fritzl was only discovered when one of her children fell dangerously ill. The relationship between Sarah and Chris adds too much fluff to a disturbing story that deserves to be told accurately. Josef Fritzl contacted Elisabeth in 1984 to help him repair a door in the basement of their Austrian house. Not now that things are finally working out. While the Lifetime film does show the love that Sarah has for her children, it also focuses a bit too much on romantic love as the driving force behind Sarah’s will to survive. She survived on willpower and the love of her children.

In a comparison an intense movie like Room was able to depict the PTSD and immense psychological and emotional adjustment it takes to enter back into the world after something like this.Įlisabeth’s story is one of strength and survival.

Even the ending with Sarah and Chris riding a motorcycle almost seems to erase everything that Sarah endured as the film ends on a happy note. While the song and the fairytale story provide sweet moments between Sarah and her children, it also adds fluff to a real story that is not about romance. Updated NovemElisabeth Fritzl spent 24 years in captivity, confined to a makeshift cellar and repeatedly tortured at the hands of her own father Josef Fritzl. The basement of a house in Austria where Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter for 24-years - fathering seven children with her - was being sealed off with concrete on Friday.