Has anyone seen Bruno Dumont's "L'Humanite" (1999)?

It also deals with a horrific violation and murder of a child, but, strangely enough, and not TOO many viewers HAVE complained about it, in that film, the lead detective, let alone a relative of the victim, does not kidnap and torture the man responsible in any way.

SPOILERS ALERT - when...

... that cop finds out who did it, he, acting almost like Harvey Keitel's character was in "Bad Lieutenant" (1992), kisses him and forgives him and even cries with him, and it doesn't strike him that this type of evil perpetrator doesn't deserve that kind of forgiveness and that he is nothing short of a monster.

Whilst having seen and equally highly appreciated both films, I couldn't help but wonder - why does in "Humanity's" case it goes to one direction whereas in "7 Days", its torture and kill in revenge - is EITHER method right and just, and would EITHER method work? (Although I think it is implied in that other film, which was ALSO French by the way, that the perpetrator, much like THE ONE HERE, would be caught and either imprisoned for life or executed, but who knows?)