LOL! Personally, if a movie's over, like, five years old MAX, I don't take spoiler hysteria at all seriously. [wry smile]
About the movie itself, I don't know how old you are (and I'm too lazy to check your Profile right now) but it's hard to explain to younger people what it was like even thirty or forty years ago. There just wasn't the acknowledgement of child molestation that there is today. And it's good that it's there now because it means kids who are being hurt have a much greater (like hugely greater) chance of getting help and having the molesters put away. But in a way it's bad because now there's just this automatic assumption that any adult (especially a man) who's interested in a little kid (unless he's their dad and sometimes even then) is obviously some sort of pedophile, and even if he's really not, everyone's still really suspicious and disapproving and it's still considered kinda creepy and icky. And that's really sad, because little kids are cute and sometimes an adult will just take a liking to a little kid and there won't be anything wrong with it. But we can't see that nowadays because we're always looking out, eagle-eyed, for molesters. And yeah, they're out there, but.... [sigh]
I'll be the first one to go over a real child molester with a baseball bat, and I think it rocks that they get beat up and raped in prison, and I'm not even joking here. But I think it's sad that an adult who has an honest and innocent interest in a cute little kid has to be stupid to show it these days. Everyone's being so careful that a lot of great and truly harmless friendships have been lost. And no, I don't have a better answer. :/
Another good example, though, is just about any Shirley Temple movie. She's constantly getting involved with strange men, smiling at them and sitting on their laps and they're carrying her around with their hand right under her butt, and today it's all O_O because people are looking for Bad Stuff. But those are fun movies, which could never be made today. And that's sad.
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Date: 2008-11-09 04:55 am (UTC)About the movie itself, I don't know how old you are (and I'm too lazy to check your Profile right now) but it's hard to explain to younger people what it was like even thirty or forty years ago. There just wasn't the acknowledgement of child molestation that there is today. And it's good that it's there now because it means kids who are being hurt have a much greater (like hugely greater) chance of getting help and having the molesters put away. But in a way it's bad because now there's just this automatic assumption that any adult (especially a man) who's interested in a little kid (unless he's their dad and sometimes even then) is obviously some sort of pedophile, and even if he's really not, everyone's still really suspicious and disapproving and it's still considered kinda creepy and icky. And that's really sad, because little kids are cute and sometimes an adult will just take a liking to a little kid and there won't be anything wrong with it. But we can't see that nowadays because we're always looking out, eagle-eyed, for molesters. And yeah, they're out there, but.... [sigh]
I'll be the first one to go over a real child molester with a baseball bat, and I think it rocks that they get beat up and raped in prison, and I'm not even joking here. But I think it's sad that an adult who has an honest and innocent interest in a cute little kid has to be stupid to show it these days. Everyone's being so careful that a lot of great and truly harmless friendships have been lost. And no, I don't have a better answer. :/
Another good example, though, is just about any Shirley Temple movie. She's constantly getting involved with strange men, smiling at them and sitting on their laps and they're carrying her around with their hand right under her butt, and today it's all O_O because people are looking for Bad Stuff. But those are fun movies, which could never be made today. And that's sad.
Angie, feeling sadly rambly tonight