[discussion]The Crucible

I'm at part three and **she's being recorded telling everyone what the headmaster did to her. This is so sad and wrong ** :(

We all agree that no monter who abuses children should be allowed to walk our streets or lay an eye on a child again. They should all die or be locked away for like with no chance of being paroled ever. Now I have a case in my neighborhood : children (14 , 15 and 16 years old) have raped a 29year old woman. They will all go out of prison when they'll be 18 while she will live in fear for the rest of her life. That also makes me sick.

LisNoir wrote: Wow....They got almost no time to serve too. The one who gets the most is the youngest..Aigoo

Why do people even do that? There's no need....

Spoiler?Yeah none of them got more than a year am I right.? And less than a year's probation. I don't really consider this a spoiler though since the movie is based on true to life events......you can't really spoil that =__=

I watched this the day before yesterday and I was really shocked. Not only because the story itself is horrible, especially because it is true, but also because of what those young actors were doing! That tiny little boy in the bathroom - I guessed he looked younger than he was, just like the others, but he can't be older than 6 or 7 - was SO shocking. I would never let my son act like that, no matter if I'm right next to him or whatever the excuse is. That must've been horrible! But except for that, I was more than impressed with the children's acting. They did it great. As for the adults (especially the headmaster - I guess that was a double role, because even twins normally don't look THAT identical, but it looked really real), I have much respect for them. To play horrible people like that and risk that people forever see them as the characters in that movie.. Wow, I wouldn't have the courage. I'm glad this movie was done, because it opened the eyes of many people and brought that case to the public even more than the book did.

WOW what a movie what a great performance from gong yoo i was so touched by this story. it was excellent performance by all the actors. it really shock me when i found out this was true story so sad my friend from Korea said they are taking care of it and there is an investigation going a lot of those people who committed those crimes are now behind bars.

i really hope this movie exaggerated those horrible things.. it's too cruel to be reality.. but yeah..i know horrible things really happen in real life.. >_< what shocked me more is that they're haven't got the punishment, right? i hope this movie really helps the actual crime.. T_T and i was also shocked to see how each government department doesn't want to take care of this case.. it happened to me when i have some problem that made me have to ask help from uni.. but each department told me to go to another department and the other told me to go to the previous one.. it really pissed me off, and it was only a small problem.. and here,,is not a small problem...that police woman must be really mad >_<

Juniko wrote: Yeah this is not some tear jerking movie that is sad and dark and that makes you cry and next day you wake up, and the only thing you feel is a little sadness for the character who died and a good global feeling about the movie because it feels good to have a good cry sometimes.

No. This is a movie that will make you feel sick to the point of trowing up, that will haunt your nights, that will make you feel extra cautious when you see children going to school (is there one that looks depressed?...what are thoses bruises coming from?), that might make you wanna hug your own children or siblings or little cousins and feel a overprotective toward them for a while.

Personnally, I didn't know anything about that case before watching the movie, and knowing that the facts are much worse than the adaptation, I'm afraid to read papers about it, and even afraid to watch this movie again.

There is really a few movies that made me feel that sick. No, actually this might be the one.

But just one thing about the movie, regardless of the true story (spoilers in white) : I felt really weird during the bath scene...I mean how old is that young actor ? That man is actually caressing him ! I know it's a movie, and it's all acting, but...do children really make a difference at this age ? I mean, unless he's his father and he told him he was washing him (and even that would still be really, really weird), that is actual molesting, isn't it ? And there is this other scene when you can clearly see the man sex, really near that little girl...I mean, ok, the case is shocking, so the movie had to be shocking, but, I always have this weird feeling when there are "dark" scenes involving young children, like babies in horror movies, and such...here we have actual rape scenes, acted by children...what kind of memory will they have of those shooting ?

This is exactly it!You put words on my feelings!


=> This disturbed me too. But I think and hope that they find ways to deal with those scenes like tricks. But it still must have been really hard to play for kids!

tears!