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The movie “Sons” deals with a very sensitive subject, that of pedophiles and their victims. The main character is Lars played by Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, a 25-year old man who works as a lifeguard at the local swimming pool during days and at night he steals from the customers of his prostitute-neighbor. He also beats them up whenever they don’t pay her. The tension starts when Lars suspects that a regular pool swimmer, Hans played by Henrik Mestad, is preying on the young boys in the pool. He catches his suspect in the act of paying for sex. He decides to interfere and in the process costing him his job. Lars becomes so caught up with his desire to save Hans’ victims that it becomes apparent that he has deeper reasons for caring so much.  Toward the end...   more

 

The movie “Sons” deals with a very sensitive subject, that of pedophiles and their victims. The main character is Lars played by Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, a 25-year old man who works as a lifeguard at the local swimming pool during days and at night he steals from the customers of his prostitute-neighbor. He also beats them up whenever they don’t pay her. The tension starts when Lars suspects that a regular pool swimmer, Hans played by Henrik Mestad, is preying on the young boys in the pool. He catches his suspect in the act of paying for sex. He decides to interfere and in the process costing him his job. Lars becomes so caught up with his desire to save Hans’ victims that it becomes apparent that he has deeper reasons for caring so much.  Toward the end when they uncover pornographic materials in Hans’ computer do the audience fully understand why Lars is so vehement in his quest to pin down Hans. It soon is revealed that Lars himself was a victim of a pedophile when he was a child and Hans is the same man who abused him. The desire to save Hans’ new victim springs from his own trauma of being an abused child. But he was not successful in helping the child because the boy, being friendless and ignored reciprocates the man’s attentions not knowing where it is going to lead.

 

The film was written and directed by Norwegian Erik Richter Strand It is his first film and yet he is able to weave a tale that delves into a very sensitive topic but does not appear to judge to portray the villain as it usually is typified in the movies.

 

The film shows the pedophile in the same light that victims usually see them, not as downright evil but as gentle, caring and respectable men, who is able to lure children because they provide them with the attention and caring that these children usually crave. It is only later in the relationship that victims realize the truth behind the whole façade.

 

According to reviews, this film won the 2007 New Director’s Showcase Award from the Seattle International Film Festival for its director Erik Richter Strand. It is the same award–giving body that gave Marion Cotillard, a star in the new film Inception, a Best Actress Award for her role in the movie La Mome/La vie en Rose which was France’s entry to the festival that year. It is also where Sigourney Weaver received a Runner-up Best Actress award in 2006 for her film Snow Flake. Previously in 2005, Joan Allen won the Best Actress award for the film Yes along with Amy Adams who has the AMY ADAMS Signed 11x14 Photo PSA/DNA as a Runner-up for the movie Junebug.