Secret Life 5/5 (The Story of a Child Sex Offender, Channel 4, 2007)

[mellbluemerle1]

a child.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 years of age. Just look at how short this age line is. An abuser is amongst us all

[VedderState]

That is the best place for them really. Unless some government or someone is going to buy them an island, round them all up and move them there to live in harmony together away from children.

[TheMrsGeorgeHarrison]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggghhh­hhhh...Why did I watch this movie? Not that is wasn't good, I'm just going to have to watch Little Dorrit and Pride & Prejudice about thirty thousand times each to get the thought of Matthew Macfadyen playing a paedophile out of my mind!

[Maloperverso]

He killed himself because he did not want to hurt children. In his own crazy compulsive and sexual way he loved children very deeply. The insane urges that drove him to commit pedophilia also drove him to commit suicide at the end. This was a troubled man, but after committing such an irrational act against a child and being set back into society who would not be troubled. How can anyone hope to be normal after what happened to them in the past and what they have done wrong to others....

[Maloperverso]

Why do they have British accents!?

[hellookittyxoxo]

that better be water that little girls drinking

[JessPaps]

What a superb production. It was really interesting to see it portrayed from the offender's point of view and I think C4 respected the sensitivity of the issue. I was impressed how they made you feel for Charlie but still kept the awful crimes he committed at the forefront to avoid sympathy towards paedofillia. It is such a shocking and unforgivable thing to do.

[maham21jan]

he's lying about his age isn't he?

[Maloperverso]

@maham21jan He said 26. I guess hew meant 36...

[maham21jan]

@Maloperverso

I thought he was deliberately lying because he wanted the girls to feel more comfortable around him. Also, he must be living in a kind of fantasy that the girls are older than they actually are and that he is younger so as to rationalize his feelings for them.

[Maloperverso]

@maham21jan True, the girls looked much younger than 17 or 15. Clearly this man is over 30 years old. Yeah, these pedophiles seem to live in a fantasy dream world. Clearly their intense (sexual) urges affect their mind and the way they see and interpret reality. Sad, must be horrible to have such an unhealthy and potentially harmful compulsion :(

[AndBecomeADuck]

NOOO! Mr Darcy!!!!

[ninalima755]

@AndBecomeADuck ahahahahah

[ganaiemm]

GOD .. its soo sad .. i couldn't help but hate him and sympathize with him at the same time ,, and i think Matthew did a great job .. he deserved that bafta nomination .. in deed

[MsRed45]

OMG! This really made me sad. I feel bad for Charlie and the girls he raped. To bad he couldn't over come...but I guess in some ways he did everyone a favor.

[levocanka1]

I som weeping in this honor

[levocanka1]

I love the sound of his voice when you laugh is amazing thank you.....