George Clooney's character hangs out with a high school girl and a grade school girl, the latter being a robot, which he cries over when she professes her childhood love.
I'm not suggesting that anything happened sexually--but were we supposed to think that maybe he was still hung up on his childhood experiences with her that he was a pedo?
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Clooney played a pedobear, and in real life he bought Raffey Cassidy, the 12 year old girl who played Athena a ten thousand dollar diamond bracelet as a parting gift which seems suspicious if you ask me.
shareIf that's true, that's strange only because a 12 year old has no use for a such an expensive, extravagant gift. Otherwise, the dude has no kids of his own, and maybe just doesn't know what's appropriate to give a 12 year old.
shareYou guys ara sick.
She was his first love and died to save him. So he cried. You cant forget first love , its not important she is human or not. :)
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No, Clooney's character was not a child molester. He still had those feelings when he fell in love with her AS A CHILD. They don't necessarily go away. Plus, she's exactly the same as she was in 1964. In his mind, that's the version of herself that made him fall in love with her. It was his first crush (I'm assuming).
I had a crush in Kindergarten. One girl came up and kissed me on the cheek. I still remember her name, and the fact that it had taken place on the playground during recess. She even contacted me once on Facebook and brought it up casually in conversation, even though she's married and has children of her own. We had a good laugh over it.
Could it be interpreted as creepy? I guess but, she's not even human. If she did age, then she'd probably be dead or really really old and decrepit.
I'm guessing the OP has never been exposed to other people in their entire lifetime.
Why do we think, unlike pre-1980's that ANY relationship between an adult and a child not related is sick or perverted?
Considering that now because of the tabloids and mass media, it seems that there are child molesters around every corner, all school teachers (especially females lusting after innocent young teenaged studs) and don't you dare have brothers and sisters live in the same household!
Of course most fathers molest their young daughters on a daily bases, and can you really find a 10 year old girl Sat. or Sun at the mall who doesn't dress like a stripper and hasn't already had sex?
This idea that any fondness or affection towards another entity (I can't in this case say human being) is suspect? If you really want to see a movie about little girl robot (platonic) love, see the movie "EVA" (2011)
BTW: You DO know that by 21st c. standards, ALL Victorian men, esp. the artists were pedophiles...See Lewis Carroll/Charles Dodgson, John Ruskin, Frances Kivert, Edgar Allan Poe, Ian Bernard Stoughton Holbourn, J.M Barrie..etc in fact read about the Victorian "cult of the child" or in James Kinkaid's "Child Loving"..in many countries still, the age of consent is 12. Not too long ago, the age of consent in Mississippi was 13! Do you know that Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones married a 13 year old when in his 40's as did Jerry Lee Lewis? Yes, there was an outcry, but they weren't lynched by a mob...
Actual child abuse is horrible, but projecting it everywhere, behind every rock, attributing it to any encounter between child and adult, is even more damaging and ultimate abuse to the growth of a normal child than the specter of pedophilia ever was or is. Keeping our children safe is one thing, but placing them in a bubble of suspicion is not healthy nor productive.
If you cannot even fathom the innocent affection, that of a human adult male and a robot who just happens to look like a child, and when that affection was formed when they both were children, then I feel so sorry for your children, as they will be the recipients of your neuroses and taught to fear the dark in the light of day!
And as somebody else noted, there WAS no pedophilia.
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I'm in agreement with much of what you had to say but Jerry Lee was NOT in his 40s when he married Myra.
Perhaps the OP just wants to reach out for some sense of community.
It was not only permisseable in Victorian times but actually promoted far longer before that. Young girls were actually betrothed when they were like 6 and married at the age of 13 in most cultures. Even in Europe now the relationship and sexuality of young children with their parents is much more open and carefree. It's only in America where everything sexual (especially with children) is so much more constrained and repressed. I guess it's because there are so many more wackos here than in Europe.
shareI really expected him to kiss her in the end. maybe it should have happened because this might have actually saved this film since it would have generated a lot of buzz and a lot more people would have come to see this film
shareIt was very creepy.
Like he was still in love with her, and never got over their relationship when they were 8 or whatever? Really?
They should have eliminated every aspect of love between them, it's just silly and didn't fit.
we carry the memories of our childhood loves, friendships, betrayals with us in adulthood. those feelings aren't current, but the memory of them can still be strong and hit an emotional trigger. there was never any suggestion of any more than a memory of an innocent childhood love and bitter feelings of having been betrayed
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she was a robot and not a human- she never aged - so technically she may be older then him or at the very least the same age. It just looks creepy because of the actors.
He was crying because he did love her and she was his first love. He was upset with her because she never showed feelings towards him, even though she had feelings (which as a machine she couldn't explain).
It's like let me in. Chloe Grace Moretz is with Richard Jenkins but technically she is older then him and they met when he was younger and it would be legit. He just aged and she didn't.
Maybe his relationship with her was a bit confusing for him since he fell in love with her when they were children, and she never aged while he did. What other feelings would you want him to have?
shareYou're projecting.
A good review of "Inside Out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC_205E3Og
I'm not suggesting that anything happened sexually
but were we supposed to think that maybe he was still hung up on his childhood experiences with her that he was a pedo?