If it wasn't for the sex offender, they'd have to face themselves: "People will notice Winslet's great performance in 'Little Children.' But I hope people will also notice Jackie Earle Haley's as an ex-con, a sex offender who has done time for exposing himself to children. Haley is so good that people may forget that he's acting, which means that it's also a daring performance. Haley plays fully into the appalling repugnance of the character, someone whose internal life is unknowable but who lives somewhere on the line between the human and animal-predator world. His only channel to moral feeling and self-perception is his mother (Phyllis Somerville, also brilliant), with whom he lives. Actors have been playing criminals since the birth of cinema, but there's something about what Haley does -- the way he portrays the ugliness and the loneliness of the criminal mind -- that feels new.
Field and Perrotta are very shrewd. They satirize neither the notion of a sex offender nor the threat that people feel from his presence. The threat is real. The object of satire then becomes the odd release and solidarity that his presence brings to the community. "
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