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Film critics love blemishes and glorifying the possibility of statutory rape!

posted 3 years ago by MonStar (13552)
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The main characters are a 25-year-old woman who gets involved with a 15-year-old high school boy. (They were played by a woman who is now 30, and a man who is now 18.) They both have pimples on their faces and there are lots of extreme closeups to examine their blemishes. The acceptance of the possibility of statutory rape got creepy, right from the start.

There are lots of songs from artists of the 1970s, but these are not the memorable ones that got onto record charts. A 15-year-old is not old enough to make a contract in the USA and would not be able to start and run the businesses that he does in this film.

If this gets film award nominations, then the Oscars should really hire Kevin Spacey to be their host in 2022. Bill Cosby could introduce several categories. He could give tips to teenage boys on how to make it with grown women, the fast way.

[–] stinky (53) 3 years ago

"There are lots of songs from artists of the 1970s, but these are not the memorable ones that got onto record charts."

Songs like Stumblin' In, Diamond Girl, etc. went high on the charts. Just because you're not familiar with them in 2021 doesn't mean they aren't memorable. Likely you're only familiar with the same handful of cliché 70s songs that get played over and over in current media. Don't blame PTA for your musical ignorance.

Also, it's going to be fun reading your complaints about Red Rocket.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

You socked it good to Monstar.

[–] MonStar (13552) 3 years ago

This film was set in 1973.

Stumblin' In was a one-hit wonder recorded in 1978. The single peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979. I have heard it before and recognized it immediately on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PcY59AX2Q

"Diamond Girl" is a song by American soft rock duo Seals and Crofts, released as a single in 1973. It reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-oP84mRME

The soundtrack lists If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot, but I don't remember hearing it. They briefly played part of Lisa, Listen To Me by Blood, Sweat & Tears. I have their album from that era, but they played a very short clip from it.

This film played short clips of most of the songs, presumably to sell a soundtrack album. I recognize many on YouTube now, but the film didn't help much. Current radio stations almost never play songs from the 1970s anymore. The 1980s are their oldies now.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Ahhh---shut up with your blather. I've seen your dumb posts before. It's not "pedophilia". That is love of prepubescent children. You are referring to ephebophilia.

[–] MonStar (13552) 3 years ago

You are correct about ephebophilia, so I changed the thread title. It was totally unrealistic for a 25-year-old woman, (a photographer for the high school picture day), to repeatedly go out of her way in 1973 to spend all this time with a flabby pimple-faced 15-year-old boy. There was not enough character background given to explain her actions. Some critics complained about that.

There is no ballet dancing in this film for you. A bunch of young kids do a song and dance on a stage.

[–] stinky (53) 3 years ago

Why are you so obsessed with blemishes and pimples? Are people not allowed to have those? Have you grown up in a filter-happy world that hides what people actually look like? Do you usually judge people on their looks on not on who they are as a person?

"repeatedly go out of her way in 1973 to spend all this time with"

Huh? You're revealing you never really watched the movie. I guess dating Lance was really going out of her way to spend time with Gary. I guess working with the campaign and having a crush on Wachs was really going out of her way to spend time with Gary. I guess going out to dinner with Holden was really going out of her way to spend time with Gary. I guess asking Sasha Spielberg if it was weird that she was hanging out with Gary and his friends was really going out of her way to spend time with Gary.

Go troll elsewhere.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Thanks for reading my review for West Side Story.

[–] TheMouseShadow (418) 3 years ago

when i was 18 i had a 12 month affair with a 33YO woman so youre wrong. Just because noone pays attention to you does that set any standard.

[–] MonStar (13552) 3 years ago

That is completely legal. In the movie, Gary was age 15. The previous grown woman who drove him around told Alana that she could replace her at giving him hand jobs.

In California, it is a crime to have sex with anyone younger than 18, unless the two people are married to one another. An unmarried minor in California cannot legally consent to sex. School teachers have been sent to prison for doing so.

In 1970, the age of majority was lowered from 21 years old to 18 years old, making it legal for males and females 18 years old and older to marry without parental consent. The film is set in 1973.

[–] TheMouseShadow (418) 3 years ago

I’m not talking about legality. I’m talking about your assertion that an older woman wouldn’t repeatedly go out of her way to be with him. The woman I’m talking about did exactly that so we could be together.

If you’re so traumatized by the legality then good thing you didn’t watch you precious flower.

[–] 123Guy (7840) 3 years ago

Always puzzles me when people say this is wrong or that is wrong in movies. Jeez, movies are FICTION! MADE UP. Not real.
Are we trying to cancel fiction now?

[–] bistritapcv (1971) 3 years ago

They are going for an Oscar.

[–] Burgershmurger (1461) 3 years ago

Lalaland and perversions? Polanski thrived on it and Lalaland worships him.