Why wouldnt the dad just call the cops?
As soon as he was in the house and wouldnt leave
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because he was desperate by his life after the loss of his wife
shareThe grandmother also seemed to like the company of him, and didn't she own the house?
shareThe dad wasn't all together "there". He was still devestated and depressed after the death of his wife just a month earlier. He was also on a lot of pills from what it looked like.
Had the wife still been alive....I am pretty sure that this wouldn't have happened.
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"Had the wife still been alive....I am pretty sure that this wouldn't have happened."
This is what I found so disturbing. The mother looked like a typical loving mom who had worried and fussed over her son. She would have been devastated to know that NOBODY was protecting her son and watching out for him and that the husband's/father's grief over her death with put her son into a perilous situation.
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Yeah I think it was meant to be he was too out of it to care/know what to do.
This film was disturbing.
Because the boy said he was his friend?
Seriously when the dad meets Hesher the kid says he knows him, that they are friends. Hesher was a jerk but he didn't really do a lot of damage at first. You don't think your parents will call the cops every time you bring a friend over.
Didn't Hesher go to his same school too?
I'll look down, and whisper no
..So if your kid brought some grimy kid twice his age that you tell to leave and he refuses, you would wuss out and let a little punk run your house? Good to know. I guess when your kid tells you hes going to go help the nice man look for his dog and that "its all good" youd be cool with that as well. 8 year olds know best right?
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Because then the movie would have been over.
"...asleep in lifes waiting room."
mv5 on Tue Feb 5 2013 01:08:13 ..So if your kid brought some grimy kid twice his age that you tell to leave and he refuses, you would wuss out and let a little punk run your house? Good to know. I guess when your kid tells you hes going to go help the nice man look for his dog and that "its all good" youd be cool with that as well. 8 year olds know best right?You act as if the kid's father was just an average normal functional guy. The kid was basically raising himself.
Did you not get that the dad was effed up on drugs and booze? There are a lot of worse things that happen in real life to kids with drugged out drunk parents like that. Hesher stalked people and followed the kid around so he knew the father wasn't together and wouldn't do anything.
Just because people can understand why a character is acting the wrong way doesn't mean they would do the same or condone the character's actions. This isn't a movie about people that make the right decisions. share
Also, as a father or a parent in general, you will sooner or later end up in situations where your kids hang out with people you don't necessarily like, or who aren't exactly model citizens.
Unless you want to end up in a psychiatric ward or drive your kids away, this is something you must learn to accept, and as such it can be beneficial to you to stand down and accept them into the group, where you can keep an eye on them.
Add to that the fact that we were all young at some point, and might see a younger version of ourselves in the "stranger". Heck, I for one would be a hypocrite to kick someone like Hesher out, because everything he does pales in comparison to some of the stuff we did at that age.
Not saying that these were the father's reasons, but in a situation like this, calling the cops wouldn't necessarily be the logical outcome.
A creep whos clearly much older hanging around my kid would not be happening, let alone refusing to leave my house. If you are a father and would do the same thing I feel bad for your kids. Have some standards because your kids will thank you later. Been there done that. The question was asked because the dad visibly wanted him to leave, hence the question why not just call the cops if he wanted him gone? And here you are saying that if some idiot decides to befriend your kid and not leave your house you should just "accept it" in fear your child might get mad, that's not good parenting, you must be a young dad, you will learn when your child is a teenager that letting them get away with things like that is what gets them in trouble. Kids and parents aren't going to agree on everything its inevitable, that doesn't mean you give up and let them and their friends walk over you.
shareWhy do you call Hesher a creep? He's a rebel, at most.
Why do you call Hesher an idiot? He's just young.
I sympathise with the guy, although he's something of a lightweight, and no I don't think I would necessarily "call the cops". Calling the cops is the last resort of the hopelessly powerless.
I'm actually an old dad but not uptight or smallminded enough to pass judgement. Like I said I did much worse stuff at Hesher's age. Sometimes friends or their parents looked out for me while they could have "called the cops". Are they worse people for it? I think not. I never said you SHOULD accept it, but in certain circumstances, you might. Unless you're a hypocrite, were never young, or just in denial.
Of course, sure, you can go all antisocial and territorial.. You can power up like Mario eating a mushroom, you can step up and probably get beat down. After that, you might call your friends the cops to cry on their shoulder. Bravo! Now your family hates you, thinks you're a wimp, and you don't have cable any more.
Idiot was just a general term
The dad was clearly a wimp, hence why im asking. It was clear he was a pushover, besides who would want to man handle a kid, just get the cops to do it. Either way the comment youre replying about is over a year old and from what I do remember the dad didn't want him there. I did bad things, if my mother didn't want someone in the house she would make them leave, ya I would be mad but how exactly would that send a child into the pysch ward? As I recall hasher looked and acted like someone from the psych ward so it was a strange thing to say.
Not sure what your last example was about, unless you don't know how to handle a child then yes maybe that would happen. Its pretty unlikely the kid would even try to overpower you let alone actually do so, but maybe that's just me, I wouldn't put up with that crap from some kid I just met
Because then all the film's bad plot contrivances couldn't happen.
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