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anagramofbrat) wrote2009-09-29 08:55 pm
anagramofbrat) wrote2009-09-29 08:55 pm
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And now your moment of cognitive dissonance
Point the first: Macbeth is one of my favorite movies. I also really like Rosemary's Baby.
Point the second: Roman Polanski raped a child.
I am completely confused by how some people apparently fail to understand that Point the First neither negates nor excuses Point the Second and seem to think that because the man directed some pretty good movies he somehow doesn't need to get his old crinkly baby-sodomizing ass back over here to get thrown under the damn jail where he rightly belongs.
I also feel really hard for Samantha Geimer, having to be continually haunted by this 32 years later. I don't blame her at all for wanting this over and done with to the point of asking Los Angeles to drop the matter and allow her to move on with her life... there's really only so long and so much you can keep tearing old wounds open like that. I suppose luckily for her, she doesn't have to go through a criminal trial again, considering the man was tried, convicted and admitted it, but I'm sure the renewed media interest is just as bad. I suppose you could say something about justice being served, but in a lot of ways, it's too late for that. The man's been on the run for 32 years. Maybe someday that won't feel like so much time to me, but right now that's my whole life and then some... I don't know. Speaking from a deeply personal place (and a lot of you know why and where) that feels way beyond a day late and a dollar short, that feels like complete and utter FAIL. Honestly if I were in her place, I'd be all "yeah that's nice, good for you" and golf clapping, cause after three goddamn decades of letting this guy nance around free to do his own thing, I don't think him finally being taken into custody would do a blessed thing for me. But I'm not Samantha Geimer. Maybe she will get some kind of closure out of this... you know, if they don't find some legal loophole that sets him free to wander Europe with his golfing buddy Pedobear.
(Completely aside, I now not only have "We Like To Party" firmly stuck in my head, but I also have this image of Mr. Polanski and Pedobear getting out of the Six Flags bus and dancing to it. Certainly puts a twisted on MORE FLAGS! MORE FUN!)
All that said, I'm probably a bad person for this, but I'm getting a fair amount of sick lulz out of Woody Allen petitioning to have Polanski freed. ...Really?
People are idiots.
Point the second: Roman Polanski raped a child.
I am completely confused by how some people apparently fail to understand that Point the First neither negates nor excuses Point the Second and seem to think that because the man directed some pretty good movies he somehow doesn't need to get his old crinkly baby-sodomizing ass back over here to get thrown under the damn jail where he rightly belongs.
I also feel really hard for Samantha Geimer, having to be continually haunted by this 32 years later. I don't blame her at all for wanting this over and done with to the point of asking Los Angeles to drop the matter and allow her to move on with her life... there's really only so long and so much you can keep tearing old wounds open like that. I suppose luckily for her, she doesn't have to go through a criminal trial again, considering the man was tried, convicted and admitted it, but I'm sure the renewed media interest is just as bad. I suppose you could say something about justice being served, but in a lot of ways, it's too late for that. The man's been on the run for 32 years. Maybe someday that won't feel like so much time to me, but right now that's my whole life and then some... I don't know. Speaking from a deeply personal place (and a lot of you know why and where) that feels way beyond a day late and a dollar short, that feels like complete and utter FAIL. Honestly if I were in her place, I'd be all "yeah that's nice, good for you" and golf clapping, cause after three goddamn decades of letting this guy nance around free to do his own thing, I don't think him finally being taken into custody would do a blessed thing for me. But I'm not Samantha Geimer. Maybe she will get some kind of closure out of this... you know, if they don't find some legal loophole that sets him free to wander Europe with his golfing buddy Pedobear.
(Completely aside, I now not only have "We Like To Party" firmly stuck in my head, but I also have this image of Mr. Polanski and Pedobear getting out of the Six Flags bus and dancing to it. Certainly puts a twisted on MORE FLAGS! MORE FUN!)
All that said, I'm probably a bad person for this, but I'm getting a fair amount of sick lulz out of Woody Allen petitioning to have Polanski freed. ...Really?
People are idiots.
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I am so sick of people calling up his movies to excuse this. Regardless of the crime, he was convicted. He fled. He should be in jail. End of story.
The fact that it was a crime against a child even aside. He committed a crime. He was convicted. He should serve his sentence. If he wants to appeal it, fine that's his right. But you get your ass back to this country to do it. Yo don't get to dance off across Europe for 30 years and then wonder why people are still are at you.
Being an artist doesn't excuse any of that.
(And oh Lord, now that's rolling through my head and I'm in Stats you evil person)
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And just because he only (as far as we know) raped one little girl doesn't mean he's an OK guy.
And just because she wants to have the whole thing over with doesn't mean it wasn't rape.
And just because he's fled the country to avoid *possible* additional jail time (because he was afraid of the judge) doesn't mean he should get out of that court date. Ooo, he lost money because he wasn't in Hollywood, that should be punishment enough = bullshit.
What kind of fucking message would it send if this became acceptable? No way this would be happening if he had not been famous.
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