Ugly!

Rating: 8/10 (2 February 2008)

Thanx to Sydney Channel 7 in Sydney who started the broadcast at 22:10 when it was programmed at 22:30, it saved me a tinny bit of agony, not much really as they are more and more generous with their commercials! I picked up the story just before the roller skating scene. Yes I thought it was ugly. What an incredible piece of acting, I watched the new "italian Job" only a few night before and could not believe I was looking at the same person. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with horror and horrible stories. Yes I'd prefer the Brady Bunch. Sometimes I wonder if we are really trying to make this world better when we continuously glorifying evil. If all this had no affect on us, why are we bombarded with adds/commercials (I hear the French government want to get rid of it on free TV, it will be interesting to see how far it'll go...money is not something to disregard!) But OK let's be mature, if I disregard what I have just said, I'll have to agree with most of the reviews I read. It's very sad, very well acted, and very touching. I too felt some sympathy for the character, quite a lot of sympathy actually. And I think she's got it right when she says that people do die all the time for the reason she quotes which is not way out, neither the right reasons. When one looks at misery it can make one biased, we almost forget the victims. I also remember experiencing similar ambivalent feelings with "the accused" (jody foster) the situation was quite different yet there was in it something I was not comfortable with, that kind of message that's OK to do what you want but others should not take advantage of it. Yep you should have the right to be in the wrong place doing the wrong thing without being in trouble at all. Yep it should be a unique privilege that does not extend to others. Here we're dealing with a story I believe closely following a real event. But how much reality do we need these days. I guess I'll have to cling onto what I have heard very recently. It's the sin that is very ugly, not the sinner. And why it takes 14 years for capital punishment?