Ending -
So I guess Hans committed suicide? Anyone feels a tinge of sympathy for him? I do.
This does not mean I condone his act; I am just feeling for him as a human being...
Hans suicide is heavily implied.
By the way he looks down the window, how other windos light up and then the cops come.
And when Tim asks "Did he get aways"
Lars responds "Yes"
Did WE get away he says. But yes, of course his suicide is implied.
This is Portland, Oregon, God damnit! Can't you feel the darkness!??
I do feel sympathy for Hans, why? he was being honest, he didn't force the boys to come to his place and that they actually enjoyed in those days. You can see this when he was talking with Jorgen, I think what triggered Jorgen's rage was that Hans was telling him the truth, an 'awful' truth that Jorgen didn't like about himself.
Besides, Hans is a human being regardless of what he does. I think one shouldn't mix mutual consentual sex with child sexual abuse.
The boys didn't have a gun to their head, true. But to say they were there voluntarily is quite a stretch. They were 12 y.o. 13 y.o teenagers. Kids at that age are extremely vulnerable, thus easily manipulated. Hans was the adult, it was his responsability alone.
You could argue the boys enjoyed themselves, but then again, at that age it's difficult to know wrong from right, to understand how manipulative Hans was. He was sick, and the boys (Lars and Jorgen and others) understood that as they grew up, they realized they had been used in the most terrible way and they will never be the same because of it. That's why Jorgen (and Lars) was so angry.