The message of this movie.

Most importantly - do people ACTUALLY think that this film is some kind of pedophile apology or that it severely undermines ACTUAL cases of child abuse as such or do you think that there's more to it and that dealing with a man falsely accused of something like this is, at least in theory, not really all that much different from having a film dealing with someone wrongly accused of murder, terrible as child abuse as such is and possibly worse and more complex a matter, but murder is at least almost as bad as far as murdering innocents is concerned.

Even IF some people MAY take it as such, given such various complexities around the actual issue that say unlike murder it is far more difficult to prove etc.

Thing is - not that I disagree with them of course - but I do know that yes indeed this type of child sexual abuse issue is indeed very serious and yes there are major problems with law system, societal stances, it being difficult to prove etc etc etc that, with all of that in mind, it can be hard to accept that a man maybe wrongly accused of being a perpetrator here.

But then again, on its own or with the whole matter, I have actually heard that SOME of those cases - where man were wrongly accused of being child molesters and had to suffer consequences as a result, either by getting jailed or in trouble with people around them or in some cases even killed (the few documented cases of early 00s in Britain) actually HAVE happened - and besides, although our world IS cruel, it is also far from perfect and very flawed and as far as justice is concerned, do you agree that mistakes, misunderstandings and often unfair in such cases actings on emotion may ALSO happen and cause the wrong people to suffer by simply being easy targets and at the wrong place at the wrong time. (One of those cases in Britain by the way involved a man who lived in the same house that a known guilty pedophile offender used to live in, another ridiculous case had a misunderstanding of the word "PEDIATRICIAN" etc.)
And yes I have also heard of the 80s MacManus case and some Bjorn one from early 90s that people over here have mentioned.

Of course we do know that with ACTUAL child molesters, there is a bigger problem. And I don't even think this film attempts to deny it even once. (Keep in mind that The Hunt's director Thomas Vinterberg's previos 1998 Dogme-95-manifesto effort "Festen" ("The Celebration") was indeed about the horrors of actual, and in that case also incestuous, child sexual abuse - and it sure wasn't undermining that aspect there at all.)

But does that mean that it is highly unethical then if we make a movie about a man falsely accused of being the guilty party of such deed and that it makes it an apology for actual deed? When, for instance, if we make films where people are falsely accused of committing murder (some of which maybe child murder and some of which may have ALSO been committed with elements of sexual abuse to it) and had to suffer some or other consequences as a result of it, we are not in any case trivializing either the destructive NATURE of the crime of murder or the sad fact that yes, on our planet, there are also people who DO in fact get away with murder.

The greatest trick the Devil has ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist!