Quickly, when watching "Our Father" on Netflix, you realize this is not your average documentary. It's not only that the story the movie tells is chilling — a popular and respected fertility doctor in Indiana, Dr. Donald Cline, is revealed to have replaced donor sperm with his own and impregnated scores of women over the years without their permission — but the way the story reveals itself is terrifying, layer after layer like a rotting onion.
Along with the horror, the documentary flashes with moment after moment of dark beauty. Angel wings fan out behind an actor playing Cline (Keith Boyle) as the extremely religious doctor baptizes white-clad believers in his backyard pool. Color plays a huge role in the stark film, full of shadows and crosses, as do reenactments. Far from "Unsolved Mystery" reenactments, the reenactments in "Our Father" blend actors with real people to startling effect. The emotion on their faces feels real because it is.
