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It sure didn’t take long for a film about Roman Polanski to start moving along. Ok, it’s probably been in the works for a while now, waiting for things to surface in the news again, as they have this week.
Filmmaker Brett Ratner has announced his plans to make a documentary about Polanski, possibly a sequel to Marina Zenovich’s 2008 doc, “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.”
Ratner is in the “forgive and forget” camp (which I don’t agree with, by the way). He has said that Polanski has been “forgiven” for having unlawful sex with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977: "The family has forgiven him. The victim has forgiven him. The rest of the world has forgiven him. The LA judicial system is corrupt. It’s horrible."
No, Brett, what’s horrible is Polanski drugging up a 13-year-old girl and raping her. That’s what’s horrible, and it shouldn’t be glorified or drawn attention to in any way, shape or form.
I don’t care how many years have passed; it’s still a horrific act.
Thoughts on this?
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789 days ago
[...] Roman Polanski may be under house arrest at his chalet in Switzerland, but that hasn’t stopped the filmmaker’s career from moving forward. Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the “Twilight” series, has acquired the North American rights to Roman Polanki’s latest film “The Ghost Writer.” [...]
The victim and her family may have forgiven Polanski, but doing so was probably a crucial element in their being able to move on with their lives. (If this happened to my daughter, at 13 or at 16 or 18, I don’t think I could ever forgive him.) But that doesn’t mean he should not be punished.