Posted on 1/20/2005, 9:22:19 PM by Seth Monroe
A Crime Ready for Its Close-Up Cinema Tackles Pedophilia, in Equal Amounts of Shadow and Light
By Desson Thomson Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 16, 2005; Page N01
In "Bad Education," which opened here Friday, a preteen boy named Ignacio is singing "Moon River" in Spanish while a priest strums a guitar in an idyllic riverside setting. The boy looks beatific. He sings like a dream. But the priest watches Ignacio with something darker than innocent appreciation. We don't like what we see, yet we don't completely check him off as a "bad guy." That -- preserving the priest's humanity -- was the filmmakers intention.
"The fact that he has felt love for something forbidden doesn't mean that love is any less real or less strong," writer-director Pedro Almodovar told me.
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Hollywood has had a long standing love of child rape and child rapist. Just take their support of Roman Polanski and their recent awarding of a director job for the movie Jeepers Creepers 2 to a convicted child rapist who just got out of the slammer. I think they are still trying to promote the Kinsey movie thinking America actually wants to spend two hours of their time watching them glorify that child molester.
They thought this would be the perfect time as Kerry would be in power but Bush and Rove put a stop to that. However the work was already completed and scheduled for viewing which is what we are seeing now.
"WA Post article discusses the "humanity" of pedophilia. Lefties love their child rapists."
It's only wrong when a priest is involved. Same old Doublethink from the left.
I'll bet the author will be popular with his neighbors after they read that.
I am so happy to see responsibility in the media. We can all celebrate "free speech". (sarcasm)
If we don't like it we can always change the channel or not buy the product....you know, like child porn.
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BTTT
Bring me a pedophile. I have four 129 lb. Rottweilers who need fresh meat.
Not someone ACCUSED or even convicted, since there are many innocent people in prison. I mean one who has admitted it and doesn't care who knows it. THAT is the one I want.
After my dogs excrete him from their bodies, I will be happy to send the family all such remains for burial.
This is precisely what liberals mean by "nuance"...
"Now we get "The Woodsman" where the Left places a child rapist as the "hero" who we are supposed to root for and sympathize with.
I thought the idea of the file (which I haven't seen) was that the audience is supposed to root for him to become normal.
Ping
Death to pedophiles.
Where is the barf alert.
Such self-comforting in crimes (an understatement) is alarming. Worse, they are comforting even sick people in their acts... in total Mengele like lab situation.
I hate liberals. I really hate the hate of liberals against the innocent. There is nothing more foreignizing than the pseudo-friendship they try to impose on others with criminals and alienating pedophiles who, merge the ugliness of what it to be intimate and friendly as an opportunity for the greatest detached viciousness done on children.
Liberals make me puke.
It is a sad soul of a liberal who relies for personal self-esteem in the esteem a pedophile may have of them. Liberals are lost and godless monsters.
Yup
Elia Kazan, patriot: An American unfairly scorned
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/992023/posts
Do you want to see how many Communist there still are in Hollywood?...Protesting Kazan's Award
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975677/posts
"I thought the idea of the file (which I haven't seen) was that the audience is supposed to root for him to become normal."
No the idea was to "feel" for the "human" side of his sexual longings. At the start of the movie he is shown spending his days leering out his window at the gradeschool next door watching the kids play as he gets off. He then tells a woman at work who is interested in him right off the bat he is a convicted Child Molester but get this instead of cursing him or getting away from him she blows it off like it's no big deal and starts having sex with him. We later learn that her brothers molested her (of course!) when she was a child so she goes and reconciles with them forgiving them as well!!
You heard wrong about this movie. Don't believe what the leftist media craps out.
All child molesters should be executed, immediately upon conviction. No appeals, no jail time.
I've had the chilling experience of reading FBI wiretap transcripts of a child molester/ child pornographer as he "wimsically" described the adult who molested him as a child and also described his own techniques for picking up and molesting children. It's a very strong very aggressive pathology, it isn't going to change, and I'm not surprised the molesters would be arrogant enough to want their behavior legitimized.
The next scariest thing after the molesters themselves, is the notion of leftists being accomodating to these very sick people and their horrible abuse of children.
The transition from "No Child Left Behind" to "No Child's Behind Left" has begun.
I well remember this fiasco, that was back when I still watched these pathetic award shows.
In fact, I was telling someone about it just the other day, as we were discussing the McCarthy hearings.
The look of pure hatred on the faces of those who did not join the standing ovation for Kazan was disgusting. I think that's when I really realized how venomous the Hollywood community as a whole really is concerning our country, and Democracy in general.
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