Let's be crystal clear on this:

[perpetual_motion]

Roman Polanski is a very talented director who has made many movies that I enjoy and find emotionally moving ("The Pianist" being on the list). That being said, Roman Polanski is also a fucking rapist. And by that I mean he was foudn guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl.

He has apparently crawled out of his hole and made some statement. Which I refuse to read. Because the facts of the matter are the facts. Polanski was arrested and charged with rape. He was found guilty by a jury of rape. He then proceeded to run away and hide from his conviction, and the intervening years have muddled the story.

Here's the story: Roman Polanksi drugged and sodomized a 13-year-old girl. He was found guilty of these facts. If you think he should be left alone because it was "so long ago," or you think the victim wasn't a victim because "she knew what she was doing," then you're a bad person.

I don't care how talented Roman Polanski is, he's still a fucking rapist.

Comments

[seftimiu.livejournal.com]

Excellent and awesome statement. And true!

I've had to personally boycott a lot of actors/performers/movies because of this. Because I just can't support someone that supports him. /shakes head/ The silver lining is that it leaves more time to read.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

And, y'know, if she were over the age of consent, it would be bad, but she was thirteen.

[wildmachinery.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU.
srsly, polanski apologists need to just diaf.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

word.

[sweetz1.livejournal.com]

its sad how many times, in so few words I've had to say this to people who just. Won't. Get. It.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

YES.

/HIGHFIVE

[truthiness-aura.livejournal.com]

There is an excellent article on Salon (http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest) that I link to every time this topic comes up. Because, okay, whatever, I can kind of sort of maybe understand some of the arguments that people are trying to make in his defense- but to get there, you have to ignore, well, this:

Polanski instructed her to get into a jacuzzi naked, refused to take her home when she begged to go, began kissing her even though she said no and asked him to stop; performed cunnilingus on her as she said no and asked him to stop; put his penis in her vagina as she said no and asked him to stop; asked if he could penetrate her anally, to which she replied, "No," then went ahead and did it anyway, until he had an orgasm.

And if you are able to ignore that, I don't think I want to be around you.