the bathtub scene isn't damaging to the child... i think the most damaging scene was when the child stood in front of his parents bedroom saying "mommy" only to see Sutherland wake up next to the child's naked mother in bed and then the kid walks away after the 2 stare at eachother.
shareHow about how the mother keeps leaving the kid alone? First she leaves him on the edge of a cliff so she can find his dead father, then in the lonely house with wind and rain, and then the creepy lighthouse. Poor child will definitely have abandonment issues.
i know what a careless bitch Lucy was. Yeah she was lonley but i'm glad i'm not that kid where my mom commits adultry (and never bothers to keep the bedroom door closed). Being left on the edge of a cliff and then hear his mom screaming cause of this dead father.
shareShe was a bitch.
To the OP though, I didn't think I'd see anyone bring up the bathroom scene.
I was a bit shocked, I mean it may vary from child to child, but at that age I knew boobs, and the sight of my moms vagina would have destroyed my sex life, I wouldn't be able to function. I think no mother should do that to her son, mom and daughter, fine, but don't assume your son won't at least remember those images, because as boys get to a certain age, breast and any other images they get in there head are retained for quite some time, they're like reminders.
What a horrible thing to do to a boy, simply due to the fact that he may think back to taking naked baths with his mother.
Well this was posted in 2007 at the time another poster posted something about it.
I wrote a thread called read the book although nobody responded to it.
The same scene happens in the book. It seems like she was happy with the mother son bonding. She also gets a little excited when The Stranger opens the door and sees her naked.
The difference in the book was the scene when the child enters the room while they're naked in bed. In the movie Lucy is asleep and Faber is the one who sees him. In the book he's asleep and she wakes up and sees her son standing next to the bed. For the majority of the day (until she finds her husbands body) she's afraid if her son is gonna tell the father. So basically she has zero guilt about the affair or even he fact that her son caught her in bed woth another man, but that her husband might find out and it'll ruin her reputation.
But the book actually fast forwards many years later after the movie ends. Lucy marries the agent that confronts her at the end of the movie. It ends with him telling the grandchildren the whole story of their heroic (adulterous) grandmother and Joe all grown up comes home with his wife. And one of the grand kids is named David.