Comments on: Sundance 2008: Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired

By: Roman Polanski Debate Escalates Into Culture War. Today in Film Bloggery 09/29/09 « ShareTrain Dot Com

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:58:15 +0000

[...] free to comment with your own arguments below, but only if you’ve seen the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. See the film even if you don’t wish to share your opinion, though, especially since there’s [...]

By: DumbSheep

DumbSheep — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:33:00 +0000

I think we should cut Marina Zenovich some slack. Sure her film is skewed in favor of a man who drug and raped a 13 year old. Sure she avoids the real issue by focusing on someone who is longer living, and cannot defend himself. But she’s from Fresno people! She’s been through a lot growing up in cow town! Give her a break for crying out loud! For Christ’s sake she went to the same high school that Kevin Federline did - and we all know how he turned out.

My point is, think what you want of her documentary, but give the girl her props. Do you think her film would be getting any attention if she actually did it on a subject that mattered? That actually caused people to ask deep questions and reevaluate their lives? hmmmm. ya. no. Hollywood loves themselves some child drugging, Roman Polanski, so that’s what she gave them! She’s keeping the guys that matter happy, and that’s all that counts in La La Land.

By: Joaquim

Joaquim — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:20:10 +0000

I feel the scent of feminist paranoia.

By: wiseone

wiseone — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:08:59 +0000

polanski is evil and should be killed

By: Sundancing 08: On Roman Polanski | doc it out

Sundancing 08: On Roman Polanski | doc it out — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:33:55 +0000

[...] I don’t mean to knock the film. I watch true crime shows and this falls into the realm of compelling mysteries revealed. But I would like to see something within the text of film that acknowledges that whatever might have happened to Polanski after the incident, the initial act that prompted the legal debacle was neither condoned nor accepted by (the women) filmmakers. I could go on here, but instead I’ll be interested to hear from others who saw (or do see) the film, what is your reaction? “Even as Zenovich is building a credible case that Polanski rights were perverted by the ulterior motives of [Judge] Rittenband, she’s undermining that evidence with a parade of excuses designed to diminish our perception of Polanski’s actual guilt. It’s very normal for Europeans to have sex with 13 year old girls! Also, Polanski survived the Holocaust and the Manson family, so cut him some slack. And ultimately, what 13 year old wannabe model in 1977 went to Jack Nicholson’s house with Roman Polanski *not* expecting to get slipped a luude and sodomized? BTW, that judge sucked. For a film seemingly so critical of the media’s complicity in abetting the myths of huge egos, Wanted and Desired uncritically indulges in its fair share of media-driven myths.” Spout review by Karina Longworth [...]

By: John Kipling

John Kipling — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:15:06 +0000

John Clark is right!

America’s media is out of control when reporting on guys that rape little girls! It’s all so unfair especially when it’s a CELEBRITY anally raping a 13 year old girl.

Poor Roman.

And where does that crazy judge get off trying to “judge” Polanski? I bet that judge wish he had directed Chinatown.

Better yet… where do YOU get off writing a clear and intelligent review of this amazing shell game of a film that was… dare I say… the most talked about film at Sundance? How dare you focus on the fact that the film is trying to forgive O.J. by blaming that out of control Judge Eto.

You and your facts. You disgust me. I bet you love Nazis as well as the American Media.

Yes, John Clark is right.

Thank goodness we’ve got a film that shows us where the real problem is… not the guys that drug and rape 13 year old girls… but crazy judges and an out of control media that want to unfairly prosecute them simply because they are CELEBRITIES.

By: John Clark

John Clark — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:26:30 +0000

Looks like you set out to defend the American media’s attention to Polanski’s story. At least that is where you myopically appear to be coming from.

The focus should be about the effects of CELEBRITY; not on the media which is to be expected, but much more importantly on the human and constitutional rights of a celebrity defendant, and upon its effects on the behavior of American Judges and American lawyers and how it ultimately sinks any hope for the American court system and American JUSTICE, at a low ebb anyway.