One of my best friends is incredibly close with his sister, they've even lived together. Watching them together wasn't much different from watching Terri and Paul together, bar the bad acting etc.
The film doesn't show anyone enough for people to say things like him filming her was creepy...he's about to leave home and he's not exactly planning to come back any time soon after all. Do we even know what he was going to be doing at university? Given the artisic nature of the family in general, who knows, he could have been going off to do something in film and media!! And as for filming her in the bathroom, Christ, its not like she was dancing naked in a shower or something, she was only brushing her hair in front of a mirror. Some people leave school and home and have friends and family sign leaving books, others use film! Not that odd. There is no timeline given to the filming, all we see is him editing and burning it. Is it really that odd to film your "talented" sister singing in the lounge? Is it really that odd to film her singing in the school Choir? Is it really that odd to film her messing around being stupid in front of a mirror? Christ, the latter would be considered prime fodder for a future embarrasing at a birthday party in years to come in most families! Who hasn't wished they could bring out something as potentially embarrasing as a sibling dancing in front of a mirror, singing into a hairbrush along with the radio or whatever??! It's not like she was even in her pants for Gods sake!
If you ask me, it takes a certain sort of person to think that an innocent film portraying a close relationship between two siblings could ever include such a hidden meaning. It's a teen flick, aimed towards YOUNG teens as well. There is no seedy undertone to it, its just a film. It was originally written from a Christian point of view, do you honestly believe the writer/s sat around and thought "Hmmmm, yeah lets make a film about a young girl who's devastated by the loss of her brother but battles against her fear and guilt to prove herself to her peers and family through music...oh and lets hint that her and her brother were having sex" ???
Would anyone say the same if it was two sisters?
Maybe those who think it should be looking at themselves before they look at others, after all the portrayal of Terri and Paul's relationship can only be made sexual by the deviants who have it in their minds!
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MyWifeMorganFairchild
18 years ago
Honestly, I can see how someone would assume something like this when seeing Terri and Paul's relationship. I will admit that they seem a little too close for a brother and sister to be in my opinion and yeah, the way the actor portrayed it, it did seem like Paul was a bit obsessed with Terri in a weird way and they seemed more like boyfriend/girlfriend then brother and sister. But think of it this way, at least they never shared a weird awkward kiss in the movie like Angelina Jolie and her brother James Haven did that one year at the Oscars. Now that was a really weird thing for a brother and sister to do.
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