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About the beer. . .

posted 11 years ago by doug_park2001
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Overall, I think this was a disturbing, sometimes sickening, yet still very gripping and generally well-done film. Like most films, however, it has a few unlikelihoods, such as:

Wouldn't drinking multiple beers make boys in their preteens a bit drunk (and probably sick)? Wouldn't it become evident after a while who was furnishing the beer to them? The "contributing to the delinquency" laws of the 1950s may not have been as rigid as they are today, but still. . .

[–] ewd76-944-614898 11 years ago

I think there were several crimes committed here.

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[–] doug_park2001 11 years ago

Yes, definitely. The young protagonist kid was supposed to be 10, I think. I'm not sure he would have held it so well.

[–] federicofernandezflores 10 years ago

Kids can get used to alcohol too.

[–] SaliceMcD 8 years ago

I certainly wondered about that, too! Maybe Ruth's kids had gotten used to it so didn't get sick, but offering it to David seemed like a reckless thing for Ruth to do. Maybe if he'd accepted it, gotten drunk and sick, and told his parents her kids drank all the time . . .