Only Hollywood would give someone an Oscar Nom for playing a pervert. If he wins will he mention the torture young children go thru at the hands of these criminals. hollywood is beyond sick.
What if someone won an award for portraying Iago or Richard III who are as evil as characters get? Would you complain about that?
I haven't seen the movie, but I believe Bacon plays a pedophile who is just released from jail and is trying to put his life back together. I don't think he actually molests children on screen. Buy hey, I could be wrong. Let me go see what IMDB has to say about it...Back..I don't know, it's hard to tell from the reviews and description if it's just about one man's struggle to change or if it's about the crime itself.
HOLLYWEED is indeed beyond sick and beyond evil.
Actually, it's working hard at being beyond the beyond.
"If he wins will he mention the torture young children go thru at the hands of these criminals"
Bacon's film shows the pedophiles side of his "problem". It makes you sympathize with a pedophile. Kevin Bacon is dead to me. They, Hollywood, take something "taboo" or "controversial" and think they have the right to "explore" it. Recently a friend came to work - a guy who sees every movie that comes out, as a matter of policy - and told me he saw some sick movie where 2 thirteen year old boys sleep in the same bed and masturbate each other. The mom smokes pot with them, and the movie kinda lets it all slide, like it was cool or something. Then there's that Kidman movie, once again breaking down "the barriers" - of good taste.
Then along comes The Passion of the Christ. Wow - a movie unashamedly with an agenda which touched this agnostic (and once anti-religious jerk) deeply. Mel deserves not only a trophy but a knighthood. And if God exists, a set of wings.