I had to stop watching this film

it's actually sick that you two see it that way. you got dirty minds, but don't want people to know (and/or don't want to admit to yourselves), you hide behind this guise and redirect the attention at the movie itself, saying the movie is in the wrong.

kind of like how a person who farts speaks out asking who farted in a room full of people to divert attention.

kids often go naked on beaches here in europe to change into swim wear and etc. no one ever blinks an eye to that or think anything sexual. but somehow you two think what was shown in the movie is sexual.

Yeah it's a conspiracy to encourage the public to become partakers of child abuse.
How screwed up are you?

You should work as a journalist, they seem to like sensationalising things that to most normal minds are normal. The idea that this is some sort of "desensitizing the masses...get ready for more of this..." as deplorable.

"The Masses"??? Hey, turd-for-brains! How many people do you think saw this film? How many do you know (that you didn't tell about it first)? If you want to experience something TRULY crude and disturbing than watch "The 700 Club" or some of your local networks Evangelical donation programs that manipulate the meek, generous, elderly, disabled, ill, etc. with downright criminal false hopes and promises. That is the real horror and it's supported nation-wide :) :) :) :) :)

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I appreciate the comments against the user mikelove1. The message to be gleaned here is that the pedophile will distort and use any information to support his disease. He used the Japanese (?), parents, history, etc. to "prove" that pedophilia is not bad, that the rest of us had the problem. They are without conscience or morality, hence the attacks on "morals". Deeply disturbed and disturbing. But most of all, they live in fear, as is evident from his vehement attacks against anyone who disagreed with his point of view. (I refer to him as "him" because males represent the overwhelming majority of pedophiles).

Regarding simplerocker:

<<Ultimatley it comes down to the parents decision as to wether they see the film as apropriate for their kids to star in. The Parents obviously weren,t thinking in the mindset of, o my child is supposed to get naked in this scene I bet some old pervy man will love this.>>

I guess I can see your point.

<<So what your saying is every scene of child nudity should be banned from films even though its a natural part of life.>>

Umm, no.
Scenes of child nudity that are prolonged and do not add meaning to the story are gratuitous and should be left out.

Face it, we live in a sick world, and pervs who need employment and integration into society will seek out whatever "socially acceptable" images of child nudity they can find, such as the ones in this film.

We stopped watching when he start f...ing his "mother". Enough already!

Firstly, I got reading here because I haven't yet seen this film and, to be honest, the OP's thread title was interestingly controversial.
(I was actually looking at films with Max Richter soundtracks, having just watched Perfect Sense - Ewan McGregor and Eva Green are both naked in that, so watch out any prudish pilgrim types!)

Anyway back to this film and the nudity mentioned above, my thinking is this;
From the plot synopsis you knew there would be nudity. Sexual scenes, possibly scenes of child birth, perhaps even intimations of predatory sexual deviancy involving a child - however these may be hinted upon in film-making or story terms. From the back of the DVD box at the store, if greek tragedy or a few freudian sub-plots had not crossed your mind then you maybe should have given it a wide berth and watched something else.

However, if I were making a film with these themes / hypothetical scenarios I would wish to raise the pitch of the incongruity of the relationship 'fallout' arising from such a course of action.
E.g. what could be more natural than a mother bathing her pre-adolescent child ? Well actually given the cloning storyline and the mother's 'motivation' this sort of scene MUST therefore be unsettling and disturbing. The nudity should be 'normal' but it isn't, is it? So how does one make apparently normal nudity so discomforting to the audience without alienating them?

If this film were broadcast on tv and you happened to walk in on it half way through, this scene should fully establish that 'all is not right here' even if you didn't know all that this was so from what had preceded the scene. You therefore should be asking yourself, why is there such meditative shots of a naked child and it's mother? What's really going here?

So perhaps the fact you found the apparently prolonged (?) child nudity disturbing was both intentional and justifiable in terms of the film's plotting.

Ideally film-makers should invest every scene with multiple thematic references and if there is some highly nuanced acting all the better, just so as to aid the editing process if not for purely artistic purposes, without ever smacking the audience in the face with blunt and unsubtle exposition, contrived coincidence etc.

If this exact shot and timing of child actor nudity occurred in a biblical film epic with a young child being baptised alongside it's mother by Jesus or St John would it be unsettling? Should it be? Plainly not.

Would other posters then be justified in suggesting the deviancy was in the eye of the beholder in that situation? How 'warped would a 'sexually disturbed' person have to be to find such a situation arousing?

Well that's my soapbox put away. I would still like to see this film.

Particularly as it now occurs to me than an interesting unintended consequence of the female character's actions could be the ability to view and influence your, albeit dead, life partner as a 'blank canvas' child (eg before you had ever first met as adults) and thus have the potential 'luxury' of mothering / bringing up that person and possibly 'improving' them. Rather than the perhaps lesser satisfaction of sharing life on equal or diverging terms as unrelated but fully formed adults within a intimate sexual context. This might present a bizarre second bite of the cherry in term of the potential personality that might be developed. Of course this is still disturbing and predatory but then so is much of the human condition. Don't let me know whether this in fact does or does not feature within this film!

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No, normal children raised sexually appropriate do not behave this way.

Perhaps you should explore your childhood and consider that you may not have been raised in a healthy manner

I saw it rather innocent also, to my guestimation I would have said they would have been about 9 or 10 then. When seeing the scene with them in their underwear, I didn't see it as sexual at all. The dad walked in and knew/gave permission for her to sleep over. He didn't require them to sleep in separate beds or rooms (like my parents would have done lol). We do not know what happened throughout the night, I doubt it was sexual but as some young kids are curious they could have done some sort of sexual experimentation. Or maybe that is the way they normally sleep and that they just felt comfortable like that. I do remember she did lean over towards him and touched the skin of his chest but I also saw that in a loving manor because she cared for him (knowing that this boy is the boy I would want to spend the rest of my life with.

Overall the first half did not feel very sexual at all, other than innocent child love.

This film did not take place in the US, I assume the UK have a different aspect in their film. As for the kids involved, their parents knew what kind of theme/role their child was playing. Think for example, the movie Mysterious Skin. Although they wrote 2 separate scrips (an innocent script for the kids and the true script for the adult actors), it must have been difficult to put your child in that film (for those who don't know - it's about a young boy who is molested by his coach and falls in love with him and helps him lure other boys in). It's a harsh film but they keep the kids from getting psychologically mest up. These kids are actors, it's their job. The kid who plays the main character will grow up and look back at the great times he had on set, not about how his family betrayed him by putting hm in such a movie.

As for all the other wild comments on this board, everyone's childhood is different. Often times we are influenced by our parents, other kids, or even the media. I will not deny I had a very sexually active childhood which started way before sexual maturaty. Thinking back I think sex became a daily thought/activity several years before puberty even hit. To me media had a little influence while my friends also led me on and helped me turn into the child I was back then. I do remember a lot of my experiences turned to urges but puberty eventually settled everything out. We are naturally curious when we are young, it may be sexual or it can just be the curiousity of the world we live in or other things. As time changes, more and more things are fed to each generation of kids. Many kids get confused by all these influences.

If I complained constantly about male nudity movies or males showing too much skin and homoeroticism in movies, wouldn't you begin to think I might be gay myself? Well, that's what I start to think about these people who see "child porn" everywhere.

The only thing I found erotic in this movie is Eva Green. The kids are just doing what (many) kids do at that age do. It's only creepy when it bothers adults so much, one way or the other. . .