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RE: "You're right...child molestation is everywhere...on TV, in the paper...and the media is making sure to hype it to sell advertising time.
That's why I don't enjoy paying to see movies which are based on the same theme. Very "yucky".

But that's the power of Mystic River. By letting the audience get to know the adult victim of such a horrible childhood trauma, and showing the audience the ways in which that boyhood sexual abuse have permanantly scarred him into his adult life, Mystic River serves as a slap-in-the-face reminder of the need to fight the crime in real life.

282 posted on 02/08/2005 7:43:30 PM PST by RockAgainsttheLeft04 (Chaos is great. Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling. -- from Heathers (1989))

284 posted on 02/08/2005 7:45:37 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell (Forgive Russia, Ignore Germany, Punish France - Condoleezza Rice)

That's the excuse for a lot of garbage..."the viewer will understand better what the victim is going through".

I don't buy it. Too much garbage around. And the producers use excuses such as yours for making money off it.