Movie: Little Children (second time)

Without looking back at my entry upon seeing it in the theatre, I think I liked it less this second time (on DVD).  The forcings of the plot seemed more inexcusable, although I did see that it has these fable-like trappings that try to pave the way for that.  At the time I think I saw it as almost perfection in some way verging more toward the real, but that may have been a bit myopic.  The ending still seems kind of touching but also ridiculous to the point of undermining.  Don't know if I made the Kubrick connection before on the narration, a very Barry Lyndon-ish choice of voice and manner in which to comment and move story forward.   Interesting how I remembered the torrid romance parts but they take up surprisingly tiny screen time.  Everything advances by alternation of scenes, with the pedophile subplot coming in to advance and stand for passage of time for the lovers relationship.  Interesting that once they get their clothes off, they are unclothed for the next several scenes as we return to them, though time has passed.  I think the feeling of childish evasion of the real challenges of their lives came across better this time, probably because I'm not so myopic and escapist on that subject a year or so hence as I remember being.  Still, the point she makes about Mme Bovary's hunger is compelling, even as this movie ultimately stops short of condoning it.  It basically puts human emotions (of the destructive kind) back in the box at the end, as a kind of resolution.  interesting but leaves you with a bit of a sigh.