I love the movie...

I think Charlotte was so dependent on a man to make her happy that she didn't realize that Minnie was a strong person.

Watched it last night and it's unlike anything I've seen before. Jury still's out on whether that's a good or bad thing. I like the way they portrayed a somewhat adventurous and happier loss of innocence/coming of age story. Where the young woman has agency and doesn't fall to pieces after first "love."

On the other hand, every once in awhile I would step back and think: Wait, she's fifteen and he's 20 years her senior, ick?

I also loved this movie. I really wasn't expecting it be that good & almost didn't bother to rent it but am now glad that I did. I was 22 in 1976 so wasn't really that much older than her. Thinking back I was really confused about sex b/c my mom was raised to never talk about such things, not even with your own child. Therefore we were also brought up that way. At least she did explain about menustraction. Her mother didn't tell her & she said she thought there was something terribly wrong with her when it happened. Anyway, my first time was awful &I I felt as though I needed to marry the guy, which I did at 17. ( no I wasn't pregnant). I hated being with him, so I never really was that fond of it. It took years later & a divorce till I met someone I cared about for real for me to understand what it was all about. So it was hard for me to know why Minnie was so obsessed with it. Of course I suppose my living in Oklahoma had a lot to do with it as opposed to SF. Lol!