I probably won't watch it, but it just seems so wrong on so many levels. iMHO

waterfall

I know it sounds pretty creepy but there's not a lot in it about the brothel. We see one girl in her underwear twice. The lady (wife)  had a stroke, blod clot in the brain ( I think) when she was pregnant. She was in hosp. for 7 months until the baby's  delivery. She comes home  and they get married. He's a sheep farmer making little money.

The husband who is "the Good Man" adores both her and the baby. He carries them both around.  We don't see drs., nurses, or caregivers. Some of his and her family and friends  are around. The wife can't talk, walk, feed herself,  or move her body.  It is the husband's love that keeps her alive. They are or were married 14 years.  Its very sad but also very moving.

(Its a bit confusing in parts re an older boy. I don't know if he was a first child or if its the baby grown up).

  At the end the Good Man sells the brothel.

Hi again folks

We have an audience, 88 views so far. Its really an incredible story for a discussion about love. I will post more about it after more people have seen it, views and news. It has received awards as follows below.  It isn't considered trashy, the main story is about a man's love for his family.

Festivals & Awards

2009 Adelaide International Film Festival, Australia

2009 Hotdocs Festival, Canada

2009 AFI Silverdocs Festival, USA

2009 Sydney International Film Festival, Australia
Co-winner Foxtel Award for Best Australian Documentary

2009 Canberra International Film Festival, Australia
Won Best Film Award
Won Audience Choice Award

2009 International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Voted Top Ten Audience Choice

2010 Picture This Film Festival, Canada
Won Best Documentary Award

2010 London Australian Film Festival, UK

2010 Sarasota International Film Festival, USA

2010 Palm Beach International Film Festival, USA

2010 Parnu International Documentary Film Festival, Estonia
Won Estonian Peoples Award for Best Documentary

2010 Kos Health Film Festival, Greece

2010 Documentary Edge Festival, New Zealand

2010 Won Australian Screen Editors Guild Award for Best Editing

2010 Nominated for Inside Film Award for Best Documentary, Australia

2010 Nominated for Australian Teachers of Media Award for Best Documentary

"Good Men" dont open brothels and exploit women

Serena

Its all too weird for words isn't it?

Whether he was good, bad, or otherwise ( a mix of good and bad?) he died of a heart attack in May 2012.

Here are some nice Facebook comments and Pics.

He seems to have been well  liked despite the brothel business.

Would his wife have been better off cared for in an institution I wonder? Or would she have faded away a long time ago  and died?  This is in the U.S.A. I don't know what they offer in home care?  The family wants to hire someone to stay with her at nights, they are appealing for funds to help.

https://www.facebook.com/AGoodManFilm

Funeral:

HUNDREDS of people gathered yesterday to say their final farewells to much-loved member of the local community Christopher Rohrlach.

At just 43 years of age, Chris suffered a fatal heart attack while helping out on a neighbour’s property at Bundarra last Monday.

He is survived by wife Rachel and sons Kieron and Liam.

Chris was well known in the community for many reasons, but most of all as a friendly, hard-working and loving family man who would bend over backwards to help others.

It was perhaps this selfless spirit that saw him make the life-changing decision at the tender age of just 22 to assume full time care of his quadriplegic fiance, Rachel.

Only days after Chris and Rachel announced their engagement and that they were expecting a baby, Rachel suffered a massive stroke.

Miraculously, Rachel and the baby survived, and Kieron arrived safe and sound soon after Rachel came out of her coma.

Medical staff tried to pressure Chris into putting Rachel into a home - she would just be a burden to the young man with a promising future in law. But Chris had made up his mind - he would care for his fiance and newborn babe himself.

Many would have struggled just to keep it together in such a situation, but Chris was determined to give his family a good life.

He ventured into building and livestock to keep his family afloat - and in 2000 even took them on a trip around Australia.

New South Wales

Chris Rohrlach died doing what he'd devoted his life to - helping people.

The 43-year-old, who was the focus of the documentary A Good Man, suffered a heart attack while helping his neighbour muster cattle on a Bundarra property, in the state's north, two weeks ago.

It was a case of 'you've got to do what you've got to do' and that's what he decided he'd do. Chris devoted his life to Rachel, he never slept a whole night in his life. He really was remarkable man 

 

Well-known in the community of 300, Mr Rohrlach was introduced to the rest of Australia through the 2009 documentary about him opening Inverell's first legal brothel to survive a devastating drought.

The Bundarra and Inverell communities were devastated by his sudden death and are now trying to raise funds to help care for Rachel and buy her a fully-equipped van.

The documentary maker Safina Uberoi paid tribute to the "big, ginger-haired, bear of a man".

Chris Rohrlach pictured in September 2009 with sons Kieron and Liam, wife Rachel and the director of A Good Man, Safina Uberoi (back).

 

"Everything about him was big - big hands and feet, big appetite (for both food and drink), a big laugh, big broad shoulders," Ms Uberoi wrote on Facebook.

"He was the kind of man you called when your combine harvester broke down.

"And when you called him, he would always come. Because above all, Chris had a big heart. That this heart, this huge, loving, generous heart just stopped, seems so …

wrong."

Mr Rohrlach had been studying to become a lawyer when Rachel had the stroke, but spent his life looking after her and their sons Keiron, 21, and Liam, six.

"He gave it all up to look after Rachel and his boys and he never regretted one day of that.

"I never heard him complain about that.

"They were an amazing team.

Edit again, I'll get there......!!.... he lived in  Australia I believe.