Film's dark prince Roman Polanski's life of tragedy and controversy
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28-Sep-2009 (3 comments)

BBC News profiles legendary film director Roman Polanski, who has been arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant. The life of the Polish-French director has been as tortuous and full of incident and tragedy as one of his dark films. His 2002 drama The Pianist, a story of a virtuoso's escape from a Warsaw ghetto during World War II, won the prestigious Palme D'Or award at Cannes and also the best director Oscar.

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by Shepesh on Wed Nov 25, 2009 02:11 AM PST

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paedophile maybe, Serial Not sure ...

by Darius Kadivar on Tue Sep 29, 2009 06:15 AM PDT

To be a Serial he must have done this all the time. Yet he did not get into trouble since the last case so I don't see how he can be considered as a danger.

But Yes you are right that Justice has to be the same for all. That said the girl who is now 45 has said that she did not hold any grudge towards Polanski after all these years so I don't see why a trial is necessary on this case today apart from a symbolic short term imprisonment of lets say a few months  or work for general public like they did with Boy George in England.

Nothing excuses Peadophilia for it is a crime but this is such an old case for which the victime has given her forgiveness. I think it would be unfair to put him on trial for this particular case today. If there were other similar cases for which he had to be held accountable I would say OK but there haven't been any ...

The debate at this stage is more philisophical than criminal I would think ...


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by Shepesh on Wed Nov 25, 2009 02:12 AM PST

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