Because he literally embodied Tess, the film was made about him basically from a symbolical perspective if you looked close enough, he was no predator, he was a victim of the culture and society. Anyone with a soul in their very being would sign it and wish him to be released. The irony is incredible how many people were blinded by their self righteous judgmental mind. Life does not work in a black or white fashion, nothing is this or that. It is the rules and justice systems in this world that operate in that manner, this is why they have been flawed from the very beginning and need to change, the entire system rooted in punishment as basically extensions of revenge have not solved anything. Once you understand that, then you'll understand how Roman could have made a film like this in the firsr place. Our human race will never manage to evolve until we start accepting and validating murderers, pedophiles, and everything that our ego hates which only perpetuated it in this world, because we have banished it in our hearts, this is why so many of us out there have been creating a tremendous effort to humanize pedophilia as much as possible so we could transcend this paradigm.

​@@ilovemovies725Beautiful and oh so relatable comment. I've always loved her, she was born in the wrong time and her extraordinary beauty was really a curse for her. She is so very underrated as an actress, it is really a shame!

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