yeah see the problem here is kinda obvious, yes?
fact is that this is pretty embarrassing all the way around. if you think about polanski through contemporary standards--like what animates the posts above---you cannot think about him as a film director.
if you think about him as a film director, you cannot think about him as a fugitive.
if you know that he was living in the house he has owned in switzerland for the past 25-odd years all summer...you kinda have to wonder what the point of waiting until the festival was to arrest him.
there is something very very odd about all this.
anyway, this article repeats the division pretty well through a recap of the split reactions about the arrest:
Should Roman Polanski be above the law? | Film | The Guardian
the piece starts off in one direction then goes in another. it's interesting.