[Houmatt]

I think the allegations are unfounded. After all, this is art we are talking about here. And even if it was not, everybody knows the right to free speech is absolute.

(Sarcasm mode: WAY ON.)

[2banana]

"Mysterious Skin," which traces the story of two 8-year-old boys abused by a homosexual predator into adulthood and a life of homosexual prostitution, is directed by Gregg Araki.

Wonder if they will exam the cause/effect...

[Borges]

Before the 'Hollyweird' brigade comes around...this film, and Araki in general, are about as far away from Hollywood as you can get.

[goldstategop]

Liberals will be attacking those who hate pedophiles as bigots as well as people opposed to the joys of adult-child love. We need to become more "enlightened" as a society.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Sans-Culotte]

Who would want to watch this?

It'll prolly be the next Salo.

[SittinYonder]

After all, this is art we are talking about here

Did he get a government grant to make the film?

[mlc9852]

Oh, you are so right. Those busybody religious right fruitcakes coming out of the woodwork again. After all, if girls can get abortions without a parent's consent, why can't children star in porn movies, too? It's their constitutional right! (sarcasm!!!) HOW UTTERLY DISGUSTING!

[Mad Mammoth]

I'll bet the movie gets two fists up from Andrew Sullivan.

[IronJack]

I'm not convinced that this was a movie that needed to be made, or that needs to be seen. It might, however, be a movie that needs to be prosecuted.

[TrueBlueAmerican]

NAMBLA Alert.

[Modernman]

Baehr said the movie contains graphic scenes of homosexual prostitution and homosexual rape, scenes of a homosexual pedophile seducing a young boy and a graphic description of the homosexual abuse of two little boys.

I don't see anything in here that would violate child pornography laws.

[sandbar]

This is an excuse to have a 'legal' form of child porn.

[Spok]

"graphic scenes of homosexual prostitution and homosexual rape"

It also violates the unwritten law of political correctness by showing homosexuality in a bad light.

[RightWingAtheist]

I have very little respect for Baehr as a critic, but even less for Araki as a direcotr. The Doom Generation is one of the most painfully bad movies I have ever sat through.

[Stone Mountain]

Has anybody here criticizing the film actually seen it? There are a lot of ways the camera can fool the eye - I'd like a little more evidence that these children were molested than the outrage of one film critic who has a problem with the movie.

[AD from SpringBay]

...scenes of a homosexual pedophile seducing a young boy...

Now there's a great lie - young boy's can't be seduced, no matter how seductive the queer may feel - their own "power trip", in spite of the sodomistic self-loathing and self-destructive life. It's not seduction, it's rape.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

Super duper nausea alert. Interesting, this movie apparently shows the truth - that many homosexuals were molested as children and adolescents, which then twisted them to become homosexual themselves.

But it sounds as though this movie is using the story line to be a vehicle for "gay" child porn.

I hope to God they shut the crap down.

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[tutstar]

disgusting ping