Takes the Mary Kay Letourneau case and dissects it for every disturbing gray area and delusion you might think of. Very well acted from Moore and Portman, plus Charles Melton in a starmaking turn.
If anyone's interested, I reviewed the movie on my youtube channel. Appreciate any feedback. Trying to improve - https://youtu.be/um5Y-LhHXUM
Thanks for sharing.
shareYour review of it makes more sense than the film itself. You mentioned the young husband going back and forth from being a "child" to a man who's missed out on a normal life. I see where they were trying for that, but at points it almost looked like he was mentally disabled. I honestly wondered if he was, but then he'd act normal in the next scene. It was bizarre, as was the whole film and the characters in it. There are no "gray areas" here.
1 out of 5 stars for inconsistency, pretentiousness, and for just being plain gross.
I agree. I've now read several reviews where I am basically being told that I'm somehow movie illiterate or too rigid to not find the humor in this. That the movie was SUPPOSED to make you sad, but on the other hand make you want to laugh. I didn't laugh at one moment of this. I'm all for dark comedy. And most horror movies have a comedy aspect that I always laugh through when some bimbo is getting hacked because of her own stupidity, but I just didn't find child rape and the serious emotional ramifications displayed by the now-adult victim funny at all. The director said that was the purpose, to feel uncomfortable of finding something funny in a tragedy. But the thing is, I didn't feel uncomfortable until later when I realized it was actually a comedy. It's like seeing Millionaire Dollar Baby and then being told after it was actually a comedy. Didn't work for me.
share"I just didn't find child rape and the serious emotional ramifications displayed by the now-adult victim funny at all."
Exactly. I have to wonder about the people involved in creating this film.
I felt the film wasnt deep enough. The Mary Kay real life case was nowhere near the depiction in this film. Julianne Moore is amazing. Why not delve more into her state of mind? Portman ended up sleeping with him and I was perplexed as to why they even included this in the film since that never happened. I was underwhelmed. With such a great cast I was expecting better.
sharegood review.
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