Yes, Polanski is a contemptible scumbag, and no, I don’t buy the notion that artists should be exempt from civilized standards of behavior, and no, I’m not basing my evaluation on some legal technicality or the rumors of judicial misprison around his 1977 trial. No; my position is that Polanski should be let go because that’s what Samantha Gailey says she wants — and, as the victim of his rape, hers is the only choice that I think should matter a damn.
(emphasis is by Erik)
Unfortunately, I have to disagree with him. I've had an experience Erik probably did not have - to be born in a country that vanished from the globe. Atlantians must have had the same feeling, or the citizen of Byzantium who escaped to Russia after the final sack. There is nowhere to return. The place is there, but it's alien - even more alien than whatever is around you now.
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What's the connnection to Polansky affair? The grown woman that answers the name of Samantha Gailey has no more right to forgive the scumbag than you, me, the judge or the prosecutors. The only human being who could forgive him was the thirteen years old girl he violated. And that girl is gone, twenty years gone. The woman by the same name only has some tenuous connection to Polansky - enough to demenad revenge, but not enough to forgive.
