Review of The Woodsman (2004) by Luca V — 08 Mar 2009

This story reminds me this stupid Italian song on air these days dealing with a guy who stops being a gay and he turns into straight. I mean, it is not so plausible. I heard opposites stories: men with offspring that start to dress like women, they change sex (for instance the Hemingway son), they date men.

So, in this movie a pedophile rehabs himself after a long time spent in jail. Unfortunately he finds a flat very close to a school. He is tempted but he does not commit any crime. On the contrary he s a sort of guardian angel.

He meets loads of guys / most of all girls who have been violated. Yes, all the people he meets are hinted with ghosts. Paradoxically the rapper Eve who always fights Kevin Bacon in the movie, running him down again and again, it seems to me the most dangerous person, with big tattoos on black skin (what is tackier than tattoos? tattoos on black skin).

Sedwick is the woman who liberates Bacon, rubbing her fake tits on him. Anyway it is very touching when Bacon tries to hook a 11 y o girl who is a bird watcher, and well. Finally they get on very well.

I mean, Bacon resists to temptation and the little girl shares her grief with him.