Did anyone get a little grossed out by Simon's interaction with the buck-toothed little girl? It was like he was trying to seduce her and how he transferred the soul to her was a little too much. Comments?
Questions?
that was a bit too much for me. When I review this movie, that part usually gets the fast forward.
yuck
You've gotta be Americans. Let's make a mountain out
of a molehill.
Nothing yucky about the violence and eye plucking out
then.
You see sex or perversions around every corner which just goes to show your state of minds.
i'm watching this movie now. when i saw that scene i swear i thought, "how many people are watching this thinking simon's a pedophile?"
wtf. i can't believe this is the first topic on the board. you're right. we're nuts.
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No you don't have to be American. You just have to not be a pedophile. It was definitely creepy. Not full on pedo but I feel all of Eric Stoltz's roles have that same quality.
shareI think you have that backwards. A pedophile would look at this scene and have no problem with it. A normal person would look at this scene and have no problem with it.
However, a person with pedophiliac tendencies that has most likely resisted or does their best to resist them would see "pedophiliac" gestures in random and typically used movements as it is something they have constantly made themselves aware of as not being acceptable because they do not want to be viewed as a pedophile. Why are they so preoccupied with not being viewed as a pedophile? Well, you get the gist, and if you don't, I am not a psychology professor.
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NovaIncognito, You're nuts. You either are a pedophile or your not. If you have fantasies about small children you are a pedophile.
Do you actually think if the teacher would have walked in and witnessed this she would have thought 'wow, look, there's an angel transferring a soul into Mary!'? She would have seen a grown man 'appearing' to kiss a little girl. Most people would find that sick. Unless you are a pedophile....
Actually he is spot on .. that NovaIncognito is referring to is called Projection and it is a VERY common psychological occurrence, especially in those tending towards the fanatical.
shareNo, I think it's because angels are depicted as generally creepy in this movie. And just because Eric Stoltz played a pedophile in Butterfly Effect doesn't mean he's striving to be the pedo guy in the business. This topic is stupid.
shareYou see sex or perversions around every corner which just goes to show your state of minds.
The way the OP describes Mary seems to label him/her as a troll.
No. The whole pedophile thing never even crossed my mind since there was nothing sexual about their interaction. Gabriel did the same transfer with the dead war criminal which made him nothing more than a vessel. In the X-Files similar transfer methods were used with the 'black oil entity' and it was no big deal. Are you one of those folks that imagines pedophiles everywhere?
shareCan't say that it crossed my mind. The only part that grossed me out was Simon kissing the old dead guy. Besides, he would HAVE to give the soul to a child-you think an adult would let a creepy guy kiss them? It made enough sense to me.
shareNot at all.
shareCompletely 100% a pedo scene.
The whole time it was like omg he's such a pedophile, this is exactly how pedophiles lure kids, and THEN he kisses her!
Cut scenes and she comes out feeling funny.
It just didn't let up.
. It didn't gross me out, but it did make me feel... funny. Mostly because I was seriously, like, 9 when I saw the movie and couldn't completely understand what I was watching -- I only picked up on certain cues and images that filtered through. And the image of this scraggly-haired, creepily handsome man kneeling on the floor and beckoning a little girl over to him with talk of "~secrets" and then KISSING THE SH-T OUT OF HER... really did a number of my pre-adolescent mind, .
Watching it as an adult now is totally fine, although there are still some vestiges of that weird sensation of wrongness left over, but intellectually, I know it's an innocent scene.
Your parents let you watch this when you were 9?
shareI'm sure whoever financed this faith thriller made a priority for the "overwhelmingly hot" paedophile scene to be included.
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