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‘Primetime’ and the Perverted Justice of ‘To Catch a Predator’
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‘Primetime’ and the Perverted Justice of ‘To Catch a Predator’

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Primetime directed by Lance Oppenheim. A24, 110 minutes. 2026

In 2005, strange posters began appearing around Berlin. An image depicted two young children, a boy and girl, chatting gleefully on a city tram. In the foreground sat an adult man in leather jacket, his eyes and identity obstructed by a metal bar. He was smiling, slightly, gleefully, thirstily, rapaciously. At the bottom of the image, text read: lieben sie kinder mehr als ihnen lieb ist? That is: Do you love children more than you’d like ? The ads, and ensuing multimillion-dollar campaign, referred concerned parties to a nationwide network of outpatient clinics devised to aid the nation’s population of self-identifying pedophiles.…

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