Will Neil molest boys too?
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knoxfan2008 — 12 years ago(November 29, 2013 10:39 AM)
^ Thank you for actually using reason in this thread.
Also people saying "yep he probably will", are being pretty moronic. The film showed pretty clearly that he wouldn't. The film also went to show that he is not gay because he was abused, yet his view towards sex has been modified heavily due to this experience. -
belinda-short — 12 years ago(February 11, 2014 12:13 AM)
When you are groomed the way that Neil was to enjoy it, there is a very real chance that you will grow up to think that nothing that happened was wrong.
In real life, there is a very real chance that someone who was molested in this way would continue this behavior unless something changed them. By the end of this movie, he realized that what had made him feel good actually hurt someone else. I very much doubt at that point that he would do that to another child. -
theunopeneddoor-697-442391 — 10 years ago(December 14, 2015 01:46 AM)
^BS.
A person who grows up to be a child molester must have both a genetic predisposition AND environment to make them a molester. They are both born AND made and like all mental problems it is not so simple as "this happened therefore you will act like that."
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theunopeneddoor-697-442391 — 10 years ago(December 14, 2015 01:48 AM)
No. He is attracted to OLDER MEN because of what happened to him. Also watch the scene at the baseball park again, it's clear there is nothing sexual there. Neil in fact shows little interest at all in the boy.
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InsecureNeuroticControlFreak — 10 years ago(February 17, 2016 12:39 PM)
I will say that Neil likely grew up with a skewed view on what healthy relationships with children are, but I do not in any way believe he will grow up to be a pedophile.
Sure, in the novel, he collects pornography involving children, but it's pornography of children and OLDER MEN, and I think it's because he fantasizes about what was done to him as a child. It's pretty clear what his attraction is: older, scruffier, strange men. That's quite the opposite of children.
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knoxfan2008 — 9 years ago(September 11, 2016 06:48 AM)
The scene of him being super friendly to the boy was more his slightly warped perception of giving kids heaps of praise and attention, cause he remebers how nice that felt to him. It's definitely not any sign he'd go on to do it.
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red_rackham_77 — 9 years ago(February 13, 2017 05:44 PM)
What you said is the same thing when teenage girls engage in sex with a grown man and claims that they loved it and they loved them and worst of all they believe that they are loved by them.
Neil is a victim who doesn't realize that what happen to him wasn't love, his real home failed to give him the proper love he deserved and thanks to that he misinterprets child molestation and child rape as love.
He needs help and lots of it before he does follow what he was taught as a little boy, you teach a child to hate he will hate, you teach a child to bully and he becomes a bully but in Neil case he needs to be shown what happen to him wasn't love. I think he got it when he sees the reaction of Brian after telling him the whole story and maybe he now knows that deep down he is a victim.