re: Does the Jeffery Epstein case make you appreciate Eyes Wide Shut differently?

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Seeing as how I saw it in the theater and didn't think for a second that they were children

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Probably because you had seen the trailer.

These freaks are into kids not hookers. I think he got invited into that world and noped out real quick. That's when he became a semi-recluse.

Enh.

This is a bit of stretch but people are going to buy into it as long as they get to slander a group they don't like.

Liberals are part of a giant pedophile cannibal sex cult!

Please pay no attention to conservatives posing with this convicted child molester.

Really it comes down to something that Lindsay Ellis brought up in her review of the final season collapse of Game of Thrones. Power does not corrupt.

Power reveals. When you have a lot of power, be it money, political power, or what have you, you can finally be the a-hole you want to be. You want to cheat on your wife in the Oval Office with a chubby intern? Go right ahead. You want to raw dog a porn star just a few months after your wife had your baby? It is all good.

It is not that the "ruling" class is more immoral than the rest of us, most immoral things are being done by people who aren't rich enough to wipe their behinds with hundred dollar bills. It is that extreme wealth gives those people even more opportunities to indulge themselves.

Give a good, honest, person a ton of money and they will be a good, honest, person with a ton of money and probably wind up donating most of it. Give a scumbag... like me... a ton of money and I'll cheerfully blow it on hookers and make Caligula look like an amateur. I'll probably donate some to charity too but let us pretend I don't have that character flaw.

I think most of the sex guys like Epstein, and Weinstein had with celebrity wannabes is like the scene where Lana Turner's character goes to a modeling agency in 1959's Imitation of Life. That kind of thing has been going on forever. Another old movie that featured casting couch scenes is The Carpetbaggers, from 1964. It stars George Peppard, Carol Baker and Elizabeth Ashley.

I grew up knowing this stuff went on, and, as a youngster, dreamed of being in position to partake in the system. Livng through the 80's with money in Dallas, made that kind of life possible. It wasn't as great as I thought it would be, but as Scratch told Willie Brown in 1986's Crossroads, "Ain't nothin' ever as good as we want it to be."

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This isn't a Republican or Democrat issue. It's powerful people across multiple countries, and it's not just politicians.

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This. Anyone trying to make this about one political party is retarded.

Only difference with eyes wide shut and reality is it’s not grown women who are used in these orgy parties, it’s children

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Power will you be the person you want to be. And for a lot of folks that person might very well be a monster. 

Rich people are no more immoral than the rest of us no matter how much we want to say they are. The "elite" is no more vulgar in their tastes then your local farmer. The difference is they have the money to indulge in what they want. 

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This is the truth. It's not like wealth changes things like pedophilia.

Wealthy people just have the means to act out baser impulses in a different way than poorer people do, but I don't think that makes deviancy any more or less prevalent.

People who act like either political party has immorality locked down make me laugh. Pols on both sides of the aisle get busted doing things no one should approve of.

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They simply want to control everything and everybody while indulging themselves in whatever they want

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And they want to be inside a fenced compound, guarded by former special ops guys (think Blackwater), when the sh*t hits the fan. Operators with a little knowledge of Inbound & Outbound transportation, Fleet management, and Demand planning will be running things.