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Subliminal perversity

posted 11 years ago by olliemankz
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I think it's walking a fine line when you have a young girl like this in a movie. I'm not faulting this movie, but lately it seems some pretty young things have been exalted in ways that are less than wholesome. Witness mostly Chloe Grace Moretz, who is a lead in a new movie and is 16; she has been making some pretty adult-themed movies for several years at least. Possibly, it's because she is so pouty-looking. These girls have young, plump faces ... the girl in Erased looks like a young Jennifer Lawrence, if that were possible. Could anyone be younger than Jennifer Lawrence?

I'm just saying that I wonder if a plot line like this panders to a certain audience that would like to fantasize about girls this age and men the age of the male lead were he not her father. Fortunately, the girl remains fully dressed throughout the movie so there is no obvious reference, and I can fully relate to the idea of being charged with the responsibility of protecting a nearly-grown child who, though learning a lot and contributing a lot during the adventure, still needs a great deal of care. Nevertheless, it seems the general outlines of the situation would appeal at least on the face of it to a certain audience, as I said. We see through it.

Or do you see this as just the depiction of a sweet father-daughter relationship?

[–] vernius 11 years ago

the girl was very hot.

[–] kinsayder 11 years ago

I saw it as a bog-standard "hero on the run while trying to repair a relationship with his son/daughter" movie - as previously seen, for example, in the last Die Hard flick. They made the child a daughter played by a pouty teen because there are a lot of teenage boys who like going to the movies to look at pouty teen girls. There's more money to be made from them than from the "certain audience" you're referring to - who would probably be turned on more if the hero was not her father.

[–] olliemankz 11 years ago

Thank you, kinsayder; you set my mind at ease. Actually, I shouldn't be so paranoid -- I shouldn't see evil in everything but, as I said, some of the Chloe Grace Moretz stuff lately has seemed pretty precarious and maybe she's like those models people were complaining about some years ago who are under-aged. I haven't seen the last Die Hard because I couldn't sit through the first one, and I kind of like to see everything in sequence. People caught in towers doing commando-type stuff with bombs isn't my cup of tea, though I don't fault it in anyone else. I didn't like the Towering Inferno, and in general just don't like skyscrapers as the setting. I hope I'm not too off on what Die Hard was all about. Same reason though I wouldn't go near Phone Booth, Nick of Time, etc.

Are you from the UK? I had to look up "bog standard" and discovered it means what we in the U.S. would probably call run-of-the-mill, though that could very well be from the UK, too. It's nice the web is a forum for people from all over the world. I do like it when movies show us different parts of the world too; Erased was good in that way. Again, thanks for your words.

[–] pva3232 11 years ago

This didn't just start happening.
Jodie Foster's whole childhood career was acting in very adult themed movies.
What about The professional, Taken, Face Off. Old concept. New generation.