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Title: A movie that doesn't know where it's going
Review: I didn't like it. I was expecting to experience something profound, but the movie was fairly banal. I like Kevin Bacon a lot, and I'm very interested in the nature of pedophilia and its management (and sympathetic to pedophiles trying earnestly to manage their condition), but the storyline here is just lacking. There is very little emotional movement of any of the characters, so the movie is very flat. I was constantly waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever did. So maybe someone will argue that the movie is "realistic" and real life is pretty flat. Well sure, except that the movie is *not* realistic. When a 40 year-old guy is sitting alone on a bench in the park, a cute 11 year-old girl does not ever sit herself down next to him and say "how's the view". It doesn't happen. If you're going to have bizarre events in a movie, you have to at least make them do some emotional work. Here, nothing. Never see the girl again. I don't get it.
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