A particularly disturbing - but, as always, very well and even compellingly executed - episode focusing on a young boy who rapes other young boys and girls. Some of the scenes made me cringe, but that is a testament to how good the acting was, from all involved.
Interesting look at the Hasidic way of life, which I knew nothing about. What an insular world they live in. Sometimes, maybe that isn't such a bad thing.
The subplot where the father of the boy charged with rape reacts negatively and tries to disown his son was interesting. I can't imagine what it must feel like to learn your son has done those things.
The defence's angle that it is modern television and the ease with which you can find sex and nudity there (not to mention on the internet, as well) was an interesting one. Of course, not everyone who watches that stuff is then going out and perpetrating sex crimes, but the defendant's mention of how the porn actors he had watched cried out at first but liked it in the end was an interesting real-world point to bring up. All porn is so unrealistic and if that's all you know...
Interesting look at the Hasidic way of life, which I knew nothing about. What an insular world they live in. Sometimes, maybe that isn't such a bad thing.
The subplot where the father of the boy charged with rape reacts negatively and tries to disown his son was interesting. I can't imagine what it must feel like to learn your son has done those things.
The defence's angle that it is modern television and the ease with which you can find sex and nudity there (not to mention on the internet, as well) was an interesting one. Of course, not everyone who watches that stuff is then going out and perpetrating sex crimes, but the defendant's mention of how the porn actors he had watched cried out at first but liked it in the end was an interesting real-world point to bring up. All porn is so unrealistic and if that's all you know...