I always try to watch a movie and empathize with the time frame. However, I just have trouble with the fact that Emma leaves her baby on the steps while she runs off to confront the mistress of Flap. Was there no concern of kidnapping back then or something? And nonetheless, I just felt Emma's character was really selfish throughout the movie.
shareI can understand this; even without me being a mother. I watched that scene closely the other night when it was on. I think Emma actually strolled Melanie inside if the building, very quickly. You can see the stroller behind the glass, next to the door.
May not have been much safer, but I don't think she left her at the edge of the steps. This was an uncut version, so, that may not have been shown in any other version.
She was. Besides the cancer, her selfishness was what killed her!
shareIt was not safer back in the 60's and 70's People only think it was. Many children went missing back then, riding their bikes, playing in their yard, walking to school,, or to the store...go to www.charleyproject.org, go to chronological order search, put in the 1950's, 60's, 70s..heck even put in the 20's and 30's..many missing children. People were just oblivious back then because these cases weren't on the news every five minutes....it gets tiring how many times I see someone say how bad it is today, but back in the good old days is was so safe...no it was not.
shareGot any citations to back this up? Nobody is saying that child kidnappings/murders didn't happen back then, but that they were rarer.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=1958 US Child Murder Rate Soars
According to this article, recent statistics show the child (13 and younger) murder rate is 4.1 per 100,000. Whereas in 1976 -1997, it never got above 2.1.
And, not all those murders are by strangers. Family members are actually quite likely to be the culprits.
And, there's this:
Yet the data show something surprising: 85 percent of U.S. counties reported no child homicides -- by any cause -- in 1997, while just 7 percent experienced two or more.
"In great swaths of the country, child murder is virtually unknown," Murray said. "The problem is confined mainly to the big cities of the East and West coasts, and to the Southwest."
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