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Post by jeffersoncody on Apr 18, 2017 5:56:32 GMT
"Normally depicting the kind of cruelty that children are capable of is limited to works of fantasy such as William Golding's Lord of the Flies. . . I'd have to see the film before I know how I really feel about it, jc, but what you describe makes me quite disinclined to see it. That said, I have a lot of respect for Howard's opinion of the films we that we've both seen, so in this case all I can do is defer to your right to object to his opinion and repeat that, based upon what you describe, it's a film that I would not choose to see. But I would never take Howard's opinion with a grain of salt, given my respect for him, because of the battles we used to fight together against so many ugly posters years ago on imdb over the question of morality and the use of gratuitous sex and violence in cinema. That said, I can also appreciate your clearly passionate disapproval of the things you describe, which as you present them, are heartbreaking and distressing to me, too. But, again, I haven't seen the film and never will, so I have to allow Howard his opinion, and let him defend his position to you if he wishes to do so. The fact that someone as opinionated and verbose as Howard Schumann does not have the stones to "defend his position" speaks volumes here spiderwort. Besides, how would he defend the indefensible? In no world, is the sexual exploitation of an 11-year-old child defensible!
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