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Why does everyone hate Hayley



She's not my fav character or anything, but I thought she was tough, cool headed and smart. She was the perfect match to Jeffs charming likeable persona.

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She's a sociopath, and it's probably the best captured personality defect captured in this film entirely. Her intention never changes, she wants him dead, and just over an hour into the movie, as he's lying there tied to the table, it stops being hidden when he tells her "I'll do whatever you want. You can call the cops, I'll say I did whatever you wanted," to which she responds "I don't think they're gonna believe a confession under these circumstances, Jeff." She doesn't want him to go to jail, she wants him dead, and not because he's a hebophile (which is what he is, as far as I can tell) but because she's a sociopath who wants him to die. The whole issue of his sexual preference is just her excuse, a way for her to feel justified in killing his sorry ass. That's why people don't like her, I imagine.

Sure, Jeff is a bad guy, we're shown this fairly early on in the movie, but he's a bad guy because of a mental flaw that is compareable to being attracted exclusively to brunettes, as odd as it may sound. Her being bad is a mental (or physical, some believe) defect that makes her a *beep* more dangerous than he'll ever be. No ifs or buts, she's a psycho, he's a hebophile.

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Like I said earlier, change a few words in the script, and this could be a horror/slasher flick. The premise is pretty much the same.


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Very good and fair comment (I'm still Team Hayley..) Dakota...but just on your last word:
It's "ephepophile", you wrote "hebophile". Still extremely close, and at least you didn't
use the related word "pedophile" which is more general as Hayley is a 14 year old teenager.

(I have the movie on DVD, btw, and admit a couple of whininings from Jeff and almost some of the things that Hayley did to castrate Jeff almost made ME cringe and turn sympathetic to Jeff. But it doesn't still excuse his intents. Like that old Jethro Tull song "Aqualung"(1971) said.."Eyeing little girls with bad intent ((C)Jethro Tull, wri.J.Anderson,(c),1971.All rights reserved.)

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Because she is a sociopath, and her last line shows her completely lack of ability to empathize.

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I thought that I was in the American Dad thread and for a while was like "what the hell kind of episode was that?!".

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Why does everyone hate her? Maybe because she's a little sociopath? I'm ten minutes away from ending this film. Somehow I just know she will NOT get the slow death she deserves.

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But Jeff is a sociopath too. Let's not forget that he thought Hayley was 14 when he flirted with her on the internet (I'll picture you in the shower!). He grooms and lures young girls on the internet and rapes them. He participated in the rape and murder of Donna Mauer.
I find it amazing that Hayley acting crazy is enough to make an audience side with a pedophile. I don't see this kinda hate when one of the cops loses and beats up a suspect on SVU.
If Jeff raped young boys and Hayley was a guy, I don't think people would have such a problem with her actions.

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If Jeff raped young boys and Hayley was a guy, I don't think people would have such a problem with her actions.


the problem with that logic is that if this was a male in the role of hayley, that male would have just pulled a gun and shot him dead. there wouldn't have been all the sadism. this was a girl that hates men. she played the part so well because she was able to pull from her own dislike of men.

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I didn't hate her but I didn't condone her actions either, Jeff never admitted to killing or raping kids but he did admit to watching the girls though. However this confession came after physical and emotional torture, it is well know that innocent pepole will confess crimes under such circumstances. Also this is possibly the second time she has done this to someone which suggests a disregard for the Law and her own psychological issues. Talking someone into killing themselves may amount to murder in the eyes of the law and was uncomfortable to watch. She should have gathered her evidence and took it to the police.

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I like Hayley. I mean, she cool, tough and I think, you are not a pedophile she also is nice to you.

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Because she's a dangerous psychopath.

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