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Just some guy filming kids in the park..ok okay, not creepy at all

posted 11 years ago by soonstar555
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Plot fail.
I don't care if those were his kids, objectively that is such a creepy and silly way to set up that heartfelt moment.
Why not get out the car, play with your son at the park, and watch tearfully as he finds his sister and plays? Why just stay in the car and film like some pedophile? Like what did him staying in the car add? Nothing. To his son he seemed aloof, and he was absent to his daughter. He knew these things, and decided to play a little woo woo "you've known each other all along" joke on them from beyond the grave. WHAT? Why not get out that car and be an active parent? I don't get it. It's so stupid. Whoever thought of that has no imagination or critical thinking skills.

Imagine if in the film some colleague or fan of his character saw that tape somehow (not his wife, because she knows what Sam looked like as a child), it would literally look like he was on his creeper status, filming kids in the park.

Just bad. Just awful. It was cute in the moment at the very end when they were watching, but I was just thinking "wait a minute....some guy was just filming kids in the park and no one thought that was weird? No one?"

That part should have been scrapped. Movie should have ended with them on the porch being brotherly and sisterly.

[–] angel_halo25 11 years ago

He could not get out of the car.... because if he did, he would've broke his promise to his wife. She asked him to choose, and regrettably, he did make a choice for his wife and son. But that choice would make him alienate himself from his daughter and her mom. If he just popped out of the car, his daughter and her mother would've recognized him, and would not understand or accept why he chooses to stay away, only to say "hey Im here with my son for a play date!" It was a complicated situation, but he got simple joy out of seeing his two kids play together....

[–] youdontknowjacque 10 years ago

Plus, it's a movie.

[–] sinceimetjc 10 years ago

Plus it was either the late 70's or early 80's. It's hard to tell what their ages were supposed to be, since they look like they were about the same age as kids, but in real life Elizabeth Banks is 6 years older. Anyway, pedophilia did exist, but people weren't as aware of it. It wasn't talked about, and even when kids would report things, adults would turn a blind eye to it. I don't think people would have thought it strange that he was filming the kids back then.

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[–] velvetjoneslives 10 years ago

By your post I can tell you're likely young. The world was different back then, at least the people were. A guy with a camera was not considered a predator that was going to snatch your child the second you turned around. Unfortunately the 24 hour/internet news world has turned everyone in to paranoid psychopaths.

[–] GSmith9072 10 years ago

It's a cause worthy to be paranoid about (psychopathism has noting to do with anxiety disorders).

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[–] dollvalley 9 years ago

Erm, he was a father bringing his kid to the park to play and took home videos of it. I think you are a bit too paranoid!

[–] lensue88 10 years ago

Did it ever occur to you that he was filming them 20+ years ago when the world was a different place? We weren't overly supervised as kids in the 70s.

[–] brux (14666) 7 years ago

Don't be silly.

[–] liscarkat (16530) 6 years ago

Filming kids playing in the park is not pedophilia.