I know I won't be going to see this movie or renting it. Dakota Fanning is 12 years old. She has a fan base of mostly young children. We all know, unfortunately that these things do happen. I feel it is extremely unnecessary to show in this movie. If they wanted to insinuate it happened, maybe that would be different. But this young actress acted it out.

http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/...GT1=7705&mpc=1

 

It'll be a block buster just becasue of this rght here.
People talking about it so everyone will want to go see for thier selfs what is so wrong with it.

Is it a movie about how innocent this rapist was?
If it's not centered around the woes of a child rapist instead centered on what a child rape victim goes through when no one belives them and no one seems to care if it happened or not, how it haunts and affects them in very negative ways for the rest of thier life, everything from the rape it's self to how us as society react to it (or we neglect to react to it)..... then I say it's going to be a good film everyone should see.

 

Well according to everything I have heard and read, the rape doesn't have much to do with the movie.

 

A link from that link.....

http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/...aspx?m=2106253

What causes her to be troubled? What other trauma can this poor girl go through?

I'd say a rape would play a LARGE role.....

It's not like it is softcore child porno scene either

 

Living with an abusive father and an alcoholic grandmother. That is also in the article.

 

Thats pennies compared to a rape though.

I love her charecter already, I already want to protect her and give her justice.

 

Maybe, maybe not. Depends on the abuse. Supposedly, the rape is never even spoken of or mentioned afterwards in the movie.

 

Is it the father that rapes her? Is that how he is abusive? Or is it somebody else?

 

No....someone else....a cousin or something. Not really sure.

 

I have absolutely no desire to see this movie.

MR

 

Two things...

One: I don't know what parents would allow this to happen...scene or no scene no 12 year old should not be exposed to this sort of thing.


Two: How is this not child pornography. Child **** can be simply putting young children in sexual situations or clothing, it doesn't have include actually activity. This certainly sounds sexual to me.

The parents and the movie people are sick

 

jodie foster was 14 when she played the role of a prostitute in Taxi Driver--30 years ago


even dakota fanning is quoted as responding to all this melodrama as "it's called acting"--she's taking a more adult approach than you guys

what does it matter that she has a young fan base? don't take your kids to see the film

there is a difference between pornography and art, and even if i don't like the art, it doesn't make it pornography

 

call it what you want it is still disgraceful...

 

I agree with Mag.

Dakota is a little more mature then your average 12 year old from what I have seen of her in interviews. Most likely from acting and working around adults.
Its not like pulling a 12 year old off the street and saying this is what a rape would be like. I am sure if her and the producer talked at length as mentioned it was somewhat explained. And sorry folks, 12 year olds arent as innocent as we would like to think.

That said, the movie seems to be doing what it is intended for. Telling a tragic story of how children suffer from the effects of rape and abuse that most people find so terrible, but quite often do nothing about.

There was a movie a while back called Bastard out of Carolina that had a scene were this guy was attempting to rape a young girl. I thought that was more graphic than this sounds and didnt see anyone complain about that. Must be this movie just has more pre-press on the topic.

Sled...

 

Some cases the parents don't know, some cases the child will reach out to someone outside the family and basically get ignored, other cases they tell the parents and the parents act like many have reacted to this movie and they choose to not belive them, it's the "see no evil, hear no evil so there must not be any evil" pshyche.


It comes no where close to exciting me sexually, infact it does the opposite and makes me furious plus this 1 mins 20 seconds (or however short teh scene is) of the 2 hour movies does not fit in hte "of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire " category either. So for me I wouldn't consider it pornography. Some sick individules might, but there are plenty of movies that are more graphic than this single scene sounds that they can go get thier fix at. Sounds like thats what this movie is about, trying to flush those sickos out!