Rewind is a very tough watch, it follows the life of a young man looking back on his life as a boy when he experienced extreme sexual abuse. His life as a child was very well documented as his father religiously took home videos of the family. You get to see how incidences of abuse manifest in a child's behaviour probably better than other documentary out there.
You get to see how children try to express to others that they are being abused, through drawing pictures, because the words are to difficult and painful to form into sentences. It touches on how abuse is systemic and normalised in certain families.
You may ask, why would I want to watch something like this, the answer is because it is important, people who have experienced childhood sexual abuse deserve to have their stories told and at the very least for us to go out of our way to listen to them, because at one point in time no one did.
Watching this documentary I felt enraged and very saddened but also overcome by how resilient Sasha and people like him are when faced with the most horrendous of events. It's crucial to keep in mind when watching something like this that while it is a reminder of the absolute depravity some human beings are capable of it is also evidence of the strength of the human spirit and soul, which eventually overcomes all evil.
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