EW
A 30 year old sleeping with a teenager who isn't even 18. I don't care if he's 16 and at his sexual prime, acts more mature, has sex... whatever. If this were a dude and a girl in the film people would be OUTRAGED and hate the film probably. At least most people. Why is it ok because she's a woman? It's still just as inappropriate. I understand dating people who are much younger/older. But I think there is a line when it comes to SEX and whether someone is underage.
I had a huge crush on my social studies teacher when I was 15, almost 16. He was probably...30...almost 32. Take away the teacher part...just say hes a lifeguard. Does it not sound creepy AF if him and I were to have a sexual relationship? Yeah I was almost 16, and I was still a virgin and not exactly the most sexual of all the people in my grade or my age, but just say I wanted to hook up with him....people would be disgusted if they found out he allowed that to happen because I was still basically a child. I was not 18. I think someone should at least be OF AGE before they sleep with an adult. You go through a lot of changes from 16-18. 18 is still very young to be sleeping with a 30 year old, but at that point you've grown more and you're LEGALLY an adult.
I just think this movie is so incredibly pointless. The script is so dull and weak. The acting is dull. The movie has no point. It's one of the many many indie films showing people in their 30's who are completely lost. I get it. I am 28 and going through the same thing. But I am not going to go sleep with a 16 year old little boy. Just ew. EWWWW. All the "deep convos" in this film, are not deep. They are boring and pointless. They just keep repeating the same shi* over and over and over. I kept waiting for better dialogue so I could take something away from this film. Anything. Wisdom, a feeling of hope or curiosity, whatever. Something to make me think. This had nothing. And it wasn't very funny. So it lacked everything. It was just about an awkward sexual relationship with a girl who wanted to feel in some kind of place to belong and had nostalgia for being young so she crushes on a kid to feel better. Ok cool? Boring friends, boring characters, boring everything. Whoever made this movie jumped on the bandwagon of this concept and failed.
I am sorry but I would feel wrong doing it. Even if he looked older. Even if he was "hot" (I cant even say hot describing a 16 year old boy without cringing because to me hes so young) Honestly to me, I feel strange having a crush on a 22, 23 year old because when I hang out with them, their maturity level is usually way limited. Even mature 22, 23 year olds, it doesn't feel quite right. 30 year old with 16 year old sex is gross. And I am a woman and a feminist at that and I don't find this "empowering" at all. I am all about gender equality, and I do feel it's mostly a mans world and I have many feminist ideals that annoy people, but I can honestly say it's not ok for a woman to do this either.
Oh and super over the top pushing it with the whole principle of the school partying with her students. They addressed that they were "dropping out anyway" but there were scenes where she was hanging out/drinking/smoking weed in front of students who did not address dropping out. There is so effing way someone who wants to keep their job and reputation would do that, or be able to swing it without getting in trouble. The first thing those other students would want to talk about at school is that their principal smoked weed in front of them and partied with them.
This film fails.