Strangely, I don't find this very funny. Perhaps because I just came back from seeing Mystic River. The Rolling Stone review gets it just about right, though it says that the part about Dave's war with himself as a potential child molester is dodged, but it is clearly in there. Laura Linney is not, I believe, like Lady MacBeth, she is more a Nietzchean Übermensch, or rather like Nietzche himself talking to the one she hopes is the Übermensch. It's scary, horrifying stuff, but never in an overly graphic way. It's the kind of film you might call "unflinching". I was disapointed with the way the ending was handled, it seems that even when people know the truth they don't do the right thing. The character needs to do more than point the finger, he needs to slap on the cuffs. Even more than seeing the character do the right thing, the director needs to show us that he knows that the way both characters are handling things is not only psychologically damaging, but morally reprehensible.

I believe that says what must be said without giving away the ending of the movie. You should go see it, its sad and horrible, but it says some true things. People with a moral foundation should know that the ending isn't right. "Fiat justitia, ruat coelum."