OP, My reaction to your transparently predictable whine-fest is the same one I had on the Funny Games message board and any Todd Solondz film as well: The mere fact that the film was divisive and produces continued debate proves that it achieved something that most mainstream films rarely do.
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OP, who exactly, are you trying to convert or influence here with your vitriolic opposition to this low-budget film that literally only grossed $1,024,640 at the Box Office? I mean, if this film was a box office hit, or won an Academy Award, or inspired countless "teen enacts revenge against male pedophile" imitators, I could understand your dire need to spew your opinions all over the net, as your outrage might be construed as somewhat necessary and justifiable in that case. But given the film's microscopic viewership, don't you think you're kind of preaching to the choir?
"Completely unacceptable and pathetic".
Darn it, I myself (and I am sure the makers of this film) were really hoping to win your "acceptance". Boo Hoo.
"They tackled a controversial topic in an attempt to be cool and hip."
How many people did you interview or what empirical research did you conduct to come to your objective and unbiased conclusion that the filmmaker's were aiming for "cool and hip"? A little smug on your part, don't you think, to assume that the filmmakers, who put forth the effort to making the film,(which,on a production of this scale, requires tremendous hard work and sacrifice) were aiming and hoping to achieve the status of your universally-accepted definition of "cool and hip"?
"Instead, a pedophile gets mutilated, just what everyone wants to see, and it's then milked for views".
"Just what everyone wants to see" huh? Do I need to remind you again that this film grossed a whopping $1,024,640 at the Box Office? How many people did you poll to be in a position to make a blanket statement like that, hmm? Oh, and can you remind me when the pedophile gets mutilated? I think I missed that part. I was too busy being cool and hip.
"....and yet they ended up making a heap of crap of a flick that is sure to please each and every conservative and pedophile-hater."
"Every conservative and pedophile-hater", huh? Again,pretty bold assumption, wouldn't ya say? Maybe we should now go back and survey 'each and every' conservative and pedophile-hater, just to make sure you were correct in your assertion? I mean, I know you are a genius that doesn't deserve to be second-guessed, but.....It's ok, I'll wait. :)
"Nothing happened to her, despite the fact that she was getting perverted joy out of torturing him".
I would venture to say that you got way more "perverted joy" out of taking the moral high ground while trashing a film that an infinitesimal portion of the population paid to see, many of whom feel the same way you did anyhow.
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Chytilova
9 years ago
OP, My reaction to your transparently predictable whine-fest is the same one I had on the Funny Games message board and any Todd Solondz film as well: The mere fact that the film was divisive and produces continued debate proves that it achieved something that most mainstream films rarely do.
Yeah it's a shock film, we get it. Nothing more. Todd Solondz at least can write a script and create human characters. Haneke in many films at least doesn't do the typical shock troupes and are purposefully hollow.
Hard Candy is just a slick torture film with good acting. There's nothing to it.
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therefdotcom
9 years ago
a shock film? hahahaha. i guess you have no idea what a shock film is. hard candy has a purpose, a pretty obvious one. shock films don't. there is no "point" to august underground, all night long, schoolgirl in cement or similar films.
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