Abuse

Parents in discussion at the background.

Thomas... How many times I have told you not to drink the milk

out of the container like an animal?

And take that thing out of your ear.

Now you are going to drink your milk, out of the glass.

Tommy, not again.

Drink it! Come on!

All of it! Drink it down.

Faster and stop spilling it on yourself.

What's the matter with you? Can't remember a simple rule?

Not from the container, you drink from the glass.

Now you are going to drink your milk like a human being.

Till you learn. Drink it!

Come on!

When your dad told you to do something... you do it!

Drink it!

Don't you dare spit it out.

Alright!!!

Why do you stop?

Now clean it up. All of it! Clean it up!

Tommy, why are you make me doing this to you?

It's all your damned fault.

Over and over again, we've tried to be good...

We have tried so far.

It's for your own good.

Someone got to teach you...

teach you to behave...

Someone got to teach you what it means to be decent,

and to be clean,

and to be considerate of other people

for the same.

And not disobey your parents,

and simply,

to mature!

Well, what happened to him?

Has Thomas had a convulsion like this before?

No never! - Not at all!

Is he allright?

He is resting now.

Did he fall recently?

Off his bike, playing at school?

Let me see a clue that could cause a concussion.

I don't know.

He didn't mention any.

Maybe it's something he ate. - Yeah!

He's always eating between meals, junk food.

Dr. Krapp, please call the operator.

Dr. Krapp, please call the operator.

Okay, thank you.

Mmmm... popcorn bruises...

And the neck is burned.

And junk food marks.

Hey Thomas...

How are you buddy?

Okay.

My name is Dr Bennett.

You are in the hospital.

But don't worry.

Just relax.

Everything will be fine.

They are gone.

I wanne take some X-rays of you.

Horton School of Social Research, may I help you?

Yes, I have to leave a message for a student in the film department.

It's quite urgent.

Sorry, I can't take messages for students.

Well, he's a Master's Degree candidate.

Larry Porter, the experimental cinema program?

Oh, that guy in the weird T-shirt,

the one who is making the movie?

Right. Could you tell him that Dr. Bennett

said to see him St. Matthew's Hospital,

Emergency Room, right away?

I think that parents who misbuse their children

are mentally all screwed up

They need professional help.

They are sick.

I take the children from them.

Lock them up and throw away the key.

Parents who misbuse their children,

I castrate them.

Sometimes a kid needs a kick in the ass.

To get you on the right track.

If that's child abuse, then I'm for it.

Violence breeds violence.

No one has the right to abuse a child.

Parents have the primary responsibility.

Children need direction and limits.

They need discipline.

It is not difficult to raise children.

Some parents just lose their heads.

But I can't believe that

a mother or father

they would set out to hurt their son.

I believe that, in the structure of any institution,

whether government, family or school,

that there is a tendency for people in the position of power to abuse it.

The bible teaches honor your father and your mother. It is a commandment.

A strict father is a special bird, a test from God.

An abusive parent often feels powerless.

On the job, in life, in society.

I read in 'The Inquire' about this couple,

They beat that girl to death.

They broke her back

and they said it was an accident.

I think they were nuts.

The only way to begin with

to solve the abuse problem is

to make Child Right a reality,

and not just call parents names.

Alright... let's go around once and

get some initial quick responses to the sequence.

After that, Larry will react to your reactions.

David, let's begin with you.

Stereotypes, that's all I see.

Every one of them says,

exactly what you expect them to say.

The common man, the priest, that young black woman with the baby.

Well, that's what I really liked about it.

They may seem stereotypes, but there are people who,

who think and talk that way in real life.

I mean, these people were just stating their

honest feelings about how they feel about child abuse and

Didn't you sensed any of that?

I'm sorry, true Christians don't feel that way in real life.

Larry has made a plunderer of religion in his movie.

The Bible teaches love and does not include the abuse of violence.

Aaron...

Imagine what Jesus said... - Aaron...

"Let the children come to me..."

I think you guys are taking it way out of context here.

Aaron... May the Force be with you!

I think Larry is trying to make a point in this film.

I mean, he's trying to show a wide

range of people and I agree with you, Sarah.

I really felt these people. I felt they were real.

I see them on the streets every day.

If you think that's too typical, forget it.

I really found it effective and would rated it four stars.

Thank you Amy for the TV Guide score.

Anytime, big guy.

Okay, Larry, you've heard the jury, now it's your turn.

Okay. The only thing that really counts for...

Excuse me Professor, urgent message for Larry Porter...

The only thing that really counts for me

is whether the scene works.

Thank you.

Does it move you, does it make you think,

feel, laugh, cry, get mad

or fall asleep?

David...

It doesn't matter, if you've seen it before with Charlie Chaplin

or in 'Los Ángeles de Charlie'.

In the cinema everything is a cliché until it works again.

Elaine, there are six men and six women in this scene.

Mark...

If I found seven black Jewish transsexual dwarfs

with Italian accent wearing only mascara,

and they have something interesting to say

about child abuse, I film it.

And if God did not like it, Aaron, He or She could love it.

Oh you have a good heart Sarah and thanks you for the car, Amy.

I got a dash, professor.

Of course Larry.

I hope it's not something serious.

Allright. Next we will watch the uncut interview

of the child abuse counselor, Kathy Logan.

And then Larry edited that scene.

When was he admittted?

Two hours ago.

Who brought him in?

His parents.

How bad?

This kid has been through a little bit.

You're going to report it?

No.

Larry... I have got eight months to go on my internship,

which I don' t intent to fuckup with a lawsuit.

So why the call?

I mean, it's against the rules for me to be here.

When I saw this kid, I just thought of your project.

Yes, there he is.

His name is Thomas Carroll. The kid is 14.

He lives up at the Upper West Side on the nineteens..

Now... Check this out.

This kid's arm has been broken.

It's healed, but no doctor set it.

The parents?

There's no way to tell.

It could have happened while he was playing

and they didn't even notice it.

What's this one?

That's my friend is the other arm.

Well, they are almost identical.

The same place and the same break.

Now, two accidents, two coincidences,

but still not enough proof.

What do you think?

I think it would be great for the film.

If only I could get to him.