by the whole
"have you got hairs on your D**k yet"
what kind of weirdo asks his son that?!?!
i think you simply just need to think that puberty and sex is a very normal thing.
it's all in "your" head.
And I think that to talk about sex (etc) with a friend or parent represents a lot of bonding.
Were you the only one taken aback? Probably not, if you live in a part of America not New York, L.A. or San Francisco.
To me it was father-son banter, funny & refreshing. I recall discussing all sorts of things to do with sex and puberty with my mother, but maybe that's only possible in America if your mother is a nurse ;o)
If you are a bit uptight about sexual matters, best to avoid European films!
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Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't. - George Bernard Shaw
You are certainly weird - as is every single, sick f u kker in this god fore saken s h it hole world of sexually repressed losers. Try walking around naked some more, you imbecile. Stop being ashamed of the only decent thing you may still possess, you miserable child.
shareI think there is a mixture of different interpretations one can make out of that scene. I think he was trying to create some bound with is kid. But we can see that he is not a very good father (like he states previously in the movie) and kind of goes a bit "rough". It's not exactly a casual conversation but it is not the opposite also.
I do not think that it is uncommon for fathers to joke about manly and sexual things when they are with they're kids. It's kind of a male thing which with time brings your father closer to be a friend with whom you joke about sexual stuff (just like with friends). Since he was a distant father it maybe an inconscient psychological mechanism to create a proximity.
Being open about it doesn't have to be synonymous with lack of respect of course, but still I can't help feeling that we are made to think that the way he approaches the subject - although he is trying to be a good parent in his own way - is a bit "rough" in order to show us he is not a very good parent and thus uses this method to create a connection.
Europeans are more relaxed with these things.
A Swedish family was staying with friends in California. After dinner, the Swedish father kissed his girl goodnight, like is normal over here.
The next morning he was picked up by the police, after his hosts reported him for being a pedophile.
Totally incroyable over here, but in the USA...
Sometimes I wonder about these stories. To tell you the truth, I do not believe your re-telling of this story.
I find these stories amusing about Europeans being more relaxed and Americans not. These stories do not present a country being more relaxed and the other not. No, it presents a society bat-sh!t crazy! And the other one as just normal and logical. That is if you believe that a country (USA in many cases) in its entirety are so off the ledge [based on such stories].
Ok so...another Swede, a businesswoman was having dinner at a restaurant in NYC. She let her daughter play alone on the sidewalk while she was eating - big mistake. She was picked up by the police, too, for neglecting her child (I don't remember exactly what they accused her of).
Bat-crazy oh yeah. Look at the school shootings, and the gun lobby. Or the GOP.
The best and the worst, you find in the US. There are more extremes than here.
And sex is a big deal. Think congressmen and public toilets.