Review of Book of Love

I was very disappointed by this movie's ending and bewildered by the director's vision/direction. A married couple Elaine Walker(Frances O'Connor}, David Walker(Simon Baker) a history teacher at a all girls school, seemingly innocently meet and befriend a fifteen year old boy Chet Becker(Gregory Smith) in a ice-cream shop. While their meeting although obviously flirtatious on Elaine's part, is seemingly innocent it culminates in Elaine committing Statutory Rape. Yes, you are correct I said it! The couple prior to her illegal act had engaged in inappropriate interactions with Chet, such as underage drinking and late night foreplay between Chet and Elaine. While I do not want to appear to pontificate as a "moral judge" illegal is illegal, Chet is fifteen. If David Walker would have engaged in his wife Elaine's behavior whether at school or home, male or female victim, he would have been fired , arrested, and vilified. Many of you viewers as parents and spouses would find his behavior disgusting. No One wants to believe their spouse is capable of such a thing, yet Elaine was. However, Elaine's actions throughout the movie go unpunished and she is seemingly rewarded with her freedom and happiness at the end, the movie only implies the emotional and psychological trauma on Chet . Elaine's character is the least empathetic, she could have disciplined herself and saved three lives from the road to pain and heartbreak, in the least arrested or face emotional repercussions . There are so many unbelievable and unrealistic issues with this movie that apparently attempts to deal with the complicated subject of emotions and love. This movie and its character's actions are two unrealistic to be taken seriously, especially considering the seriousness of the elephant in the movie pedophilia and statutory rape, and its repercussions unrealistically portrayed.