seth green getting slapped around

I don't know how this scene is supposed to be considered nowadays -- especially in the U.S. where child abuse/torture/mortality/murder rates are now the highest in the world -- but witnessing an 11-year-old seth green (portraying a young woody allen) getting slapped upside the head and knocked around like a punching bag by his 300 pound father was not only not funny, but extremely distasteful to watch. how many others had a visceral reaction to this scene? I know i did, and it wasn't so much because the scene was overly graphic or violent in nature, but the very idea of a fully grown adult picking on or abusing a child -- let alone their own child in this day and age -- is shameful, immoral, cowardly and disgusting as well as a reprehensible act of unjustifiable violence. Ironically, many people who have no problem justifying such violence toward another human being wouldn't dare as much as raise their voice to their dog.