Review – Doubt, Part Two – SPOILERS

The great question of Doubt is, “Did he… or didn’t he?”
My thoughts… ALL SPOILER… after the jump…

My feeling about what Father Flynn did or didn’t do evolved in the second viewing of the film. The first time, I was more taken with the old school shifty-eye movie tricks, especially with the kids. Father Flynn’s sweaty self-awareness made him seem like he as doing something wrong. And there is the ultimate red herring… Flynn leaving the school.
But I have to say, I didn’t think he molested that boy or any other in either viewing.
In my first viewing, my feeling was that both Flynn and Donald Muller were gay and that the whispers came with people instinctually feeling that. Flynn joining the priesthood as an alternative to having a gay life seemed perfectly realistic to the time. Muller’s history is laid out by his mother. There is no reason to think that being gay somehow makes a man more likely to seek out sex with a child.
I have been as strong an advocate of the docs about child molestati…