So did that whole thing really happen? How old was he? She was 14 and he was "in love" with her and sneaking into her bed in the middle of the night? And on top of it all her parents blamed her?
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There really was a boarder named John, and Pauline did have a fling with him. If he was like most of Honora's student boarders he'd have been in his early twenties. Pauline was not fourteen in real life but fifteen. Their relationship was longer and more complicated than it shows in the film.
Of course her parents blamed her, it was the 1950s. In the film it seems as if they both shared some responsibility. He had no business coming to her annex in the middle of the night and she had no business letting him in her bed just to get warm or for any other reason. If she had pushed him out, thrown things or yelled at him, her parents would not have blamed her.
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Thank you for the information. I tried doing a little reading on it but couldn't find any solid mention of him other than people talking about the movie.
I forget sometimes how much different from today things were not so long ago.
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this site might help
http://www.adamabrams.com/hc/
the famous John Porter HC FAQ is indexed on the left and has lots of background info.
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Maybe he was uncut so he came quicker. But he loved her but she no love him.
IMDB rulers and moderators as of late, sold out and became like City data, Worthless bureaucrats.
Pauline was considered very pure by her parents. Seeing her in bed with another man - despite her actual intentions (she merely wanted to read more stories about Diello's ultraviolent escapades in Borovnia to him) - is very telling.
It also begins a lot of Pauline's disconnect with her class. She already feels entitled thanks to her connections with Juliet - why deal with her mother, who she knows got hitched when she was a teenager and isn't exactly the best authority on intellectual matters?