This just didn’t engage me as much as I thought it might. It seems to me they took a pretty open-and-shut case of child molestation (or whatever you want to call it: he admitted to sex with minors – whether violent or not, with consent or not, it was still illegal) and overcomplicated the matter. I don’t know how we’re supposed to sympathise with someone who seems so ready to admit such behaviour. I mean, I get that there could’ve been pressure from various parties but I still don’t find myself weeping as much as the emotive music cues towards the end seem to want me to. It’s almost surreal how much footage the film makers have to choose from, too.

I don’t know, I mean, I guess I’m a little odd in that (to an extent) I have no problem with people looking at pictures of kids, and I question certain laws about the age of consent etc … but the law’s the law and if you break it, even if you just bend it a little, you should be prepared to accept the consequences, not have a movie made to make people weep for you. And if the guilty plea was false, then that makes the party even dumber in my eyes.

And having said all that, I find myself in the same situation as Rock School put me – the movie bored the pants off me, but the above paragraphs show that it clearly made me think ... so, like, I really don’t know what to think.

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