by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor  “It is strange to fetishize your pain and make a product out of it… you feel guilty about that. It felt very selfish. This whole thing felt very selfish. I never went into this thinking, ‘Oh, I am going to fucking help people.’ That wasn’t my goal. I was falling apart.” – Shia LaBeouf Q&A after the Honey Boy Sundance premiere 2019. I’ve seen a number of self-indulgent, self-serving films from “auteurs” but “Honey Boy” is NOT that at all, instead, it’s entertaining, moving, mesmerizing, heartbreaking and funny.  LaBeouf may have needed to write this story, his story as a therapeutic exercise for PTSD, but…