Polanski Nonsense.
All this fuss about Polanski. To be frank: he should serve the alloted prison sentence due his crime. Face the music. Because he is famous, he cannot be touched by the law? This is outrageous. An 'ordinary' perpetrator of this crime would face a media circus spewing filth in his direction and very little sympathy. I have no interest in his films and the legacy that they have, his intellectual 'genius' should have no standing against justice and the law, of what little justice and law there is left.
Dominic Lawson probably has it right: "I do not deny his genius, nor his contribution to cinematic art; but I also share the view expressed by the historian Lord Acton that "if we may debase the currency [of the moral code] for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation... then it serves where it ought to reign. If that means nothing to Polanski's defenders among the literati, let them think of this: if it were their 13-year-old daughter who had been drugged and sodomised, would they still feel that the perpetrator was in fact the victim?"
Dominic Lawson probably has it right: "I do not deny his genius, nor his contribution to cinematic art; but I also share the view expressed by the historian Lord Acton that "if we may debase the currency [of the moral code] for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation... then it serves where it ought to reign. If that means nothing to Polanski's defenders among the literati, let them think of this: if it were their 13-year-old daughter who had been drugged and sodomised, would they still feel that the perpetrator was in fact the victim?"