Post by novastar6 on Feb 23, 2018 7:45:04 GMT
Just saw this movie a few days ago, loved it. It is a very disturbing movie but nowhere near as disturbing as a lot of the reactions to it. People feel sorry for a pedophile/child killer, and hate the girl who is wreaking vengeance on him. I could understand some discord as being that basic male 'oof' reaction pertaining to any mention or depiction of a groin injury, even something as drastic as home done castration, at the same time let's not forget every father in this country threatens to do the same thing to any boy who so much as touches his daughter, and there is definitely no 'oof' moment there among the men, so that can't merely be it. People find the pedophile likable, and the girl unlikable, why? Because she came prepared and has her own answer for everything? Even though it's basically spelled out she lied about everything including how old she is, if all 14 year olds were as resourceful as that, our society would be in far better shape.
And it isn't merely that people don't like Hayley, it's that so many viewers have gone out of their way to defend the pedophile saying he isn't one, he has a safe full of child pornography, he brings a 14 year old home to get her drunk, he admits to being present during the missing girl's rape and murder, but somehow none of that makes him a pedophile, it's just a misunderstanding, he's a good looking guy so he can't possibly be guilty. And yet if he were fat and ugly, my money says not a single person would defend him. The most disturbing thing about the movie is it brings out what people in our society REALLY think and where they place their values. The writers were correct, "Cute pedophile pleads guilty, awww it's not his fault." They were dead on with that line.
And on an unrelated note, dude's 32 years old and already getting a bald spot, oooooh yeaaaah, a 14 year old's REALLY gonna be interested in that, these guys really are delusional, ain't they?