The British indie thriller had already sold to several territories before he was cleared of all charges in his U.K. criminal trial, but its sales agent is now having conversations with buyers in the U.S. and U.K.
The British indie thriller had already sold to several territories before he was cleared of all charges in his U.K. criminal trial, but its sales agent is now having conversations with buyers in the U.S. and U.K.
A Court failing to convict someone of a crime has never meant that the person has done no wrong. The burden of proof is extremely high, as it probably should be given that you’re going to send someone to prison. There’s a fundamental assumption in the judicial system - one I think most people would agree with - that it’s better to let a guilty person go free than to falsely punish an innocent one. There are consequences of that, and the ease of escaping sexual assault charges is one of them, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the entire system is fundamentally flawed.
The important thing to keep in mind is that courts operate at very high standards of proof, and they shouldn’t be seen as an ultimately arbiter of whether or not someone is a good person - only whether there’s enough evidence for the state to imprison them, which is a very different question.
Sure, that’s all true. But the question is how does society treat someone who has been acquitted? Kevin Spacey was one of my favorite actors. I mean Usual Suspects, Se7en, American Beauty, and many more. I won’t watch him again though. I think he’s a guilty creep. But I also know that I know less than the courts did, and if we are saying innocent until proven guilty, it’s kind of hypocritical to behave in a way that could be compared to “The election didn’t go my way, so I’m going to attempt a coup”. It’s an internal conflict about what the written rules of society say and what the unwritten rules of society say. But the unwritten rules of society also are what caused lynchings and witch burnings, so I don’t want to trust that. Like I said, I give myself a headache with this shit.