What the HELL??

That wasn't Sarah, that was MaryAnne. And a very stupid comment: the kid was a teen flashing his sister all the time, just sick.

> Especially since a flasher could evolve into (or already be) a child molester.

And a stamp collector could evolve into a child molester, and an airline pilot could evolve into a child molester, and so could a birdwatcher. In fact, anyone could.

What's your point?

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The point is also to paint those suburbanites as bad, judgmental people. Probably Republicans, you know. Got to make sure everyone knows how bad that is.

LOL! Icebox, there's NO "white" to a child-rapist. Sorry. And you're wrong; I wrote the author and he said he was amazed that anyone would have doubts about whether Ronnie was capable of killing a child. Boohoo, I'm too close-minded to feel bad for a poor pedo.

You have it all wrong.

The intent of the film is to humanize Ronnie. He's an individual with sins just like we all are, who, just like all of us, has done things that he regretted and sometimes wishes he could take back.

Part of the film's criticism was that human beings have the tendency to label individuals as good/evil, when in reality, they are human. It's so much easier for society to dehumanize individuals who have comitted evil actions than to actually try and understand why they did those deeds in the first place and show them compassion and love.

Well he seemed to have more than one sexual pathology going on. Independent of his pedophilia he also apparently derived real sexual pleasure from the sense of empowerment he would get when exposing himself and jacking off in front of unsuspecting females. The entire "date" was an act of torturous foreplay for him; the whole evening was in effect working up to the final rite of the night. The more he could win her over and gain some measure of trust before he did the deed, the more epically he would get off. So just as she was letting her guard down it was more than he could possibly bear any longer so he whipped it out and got his rocks off right there.

It was so very tragic the way she reacted to it, as it becomes clear that the fleeting hope she had no right to ever hope had just turned around and clowned her again, confirming her worst fears about herself. The way she just sat there and took it instead of making a mad dash away made it so unmistakably clear that this wasn't the first time this sort of thing had happened to her. It's just that she had gotten to a place that the worst repeat victims always do where they just come to accept the abuse as an inevitability because they've internalized it as being their own fault.

It's still quite likely he had good intentions though since he understood why what he was doing was morally outrageous, but was just physiologically incapable of the impulse control required to contain his sexual urges whenever they arose. Think about what that would be like if you were born without the ability to control your most base impulses when your started getting sexually aroused. If he didn't have some redeeming quality within himself he would have continued living his depraved life without a second thought. That he chose resoundingly not do so means that, no matter what anyone might say, he's actually NOT a psychopath. He understood what he was doing was wrong and did experience guilt and remorse over his actions. And he does us all a favor by committing to the most generous and selfless act available to him; he removes the threat and burden he poses to society every moment he's alive.

So he does deserve some props.