How many of you actually felt sorry for Sammy?

I felt sorry for Sammy to. This film was very sad. Haven't been emotional after seeing a film in a long time.

Felt sorry for him when he was abused, but that doesn't buy him any sympathy for what he does later on. Sorry, just because bad stuff happens to you, you don't get a pass on bad stuff you do. That is kind of the point of Kerri's character. She gets dumped on and taken advantage of by the whole family, but maintains her decency.

I felt sorry for every body. They all needed help. Sammy had misplaced love for Kari. Not excusing his action just saying what it's called. Kari wasn't looking for sex she was looking for a child love of innocent kindness. Sammy was looking for love and sex, he understands and doesn't understand at the same time. He is an abused CHILD himself, sexually and physically acting out was he has been taught. I am just glad for a happy ending in the movie. I think I would of been sick. Bless the Real Life Kari. I pray she went on with her life and live out the rest of her life Happy As She Possibly can.

As a child, yes. But the poor choices he made as an adult, no. His life was ruined because of what happened to him. He didn't have to continue the cycle he was part of.

yeah I did. When he was a teen earlier on I just wanted to hug him. He just seemed to be getting *beep* on from all angles. Then when he went for Kari I was like noooooooooooooo. It was a sad movie.

I sympathized with him for most of the first half of the movie, and I'll admit I still felt sorry for him a little when he presumably committed suicide. I think it's mainly because his story with his dad felt eerily familiar to me - especially when he was excitedly waiting for him for a long time only to have him call with some lame excuse.

What he did will never be excusable and there are plenty of people out there with rougher childhoods that didn't grow up to be abusers, but I can see where it would come from. He never had anyone in his family teach him to respect women, and one of the few male figures in his life only taught him that forcing someone to have sex with you was okay.

I think that was what was so great about this movie, in part, the ability to allow us to feel empathy for monsters. Sammy was a predator through and through, but his early circumstances were completely deplorable and depressing, and certainly contributed to what he became.

I felt sympathy for him when he was a child. he was just so lost. even with what happened with Kerry, I don't know if he realized what he was doin was considered rape. he was 15 with a lot of misplaced emotion thanks to an absent mother, her abusive boyfriend, his rapist, and other negatives in his environment. the scene with Kerry was probably the toughest one for me. I felt sick to my stomach. every scene with him as an adult made me sick as well.

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