oh wait i forgot. in todays society only men can be pedophiles. Emma had to be in her early 20's i assume, and there she is stocking a 14 year old outside the high school. Maybe the laws in France are different, but i guarantee if it was a story about a 20 something year old man having a sexual relationship with a high schooler everyone would have a quite different view of the movie. But oh yes i forgot; women cant be pedophiles.
shareAdele was 15. Though underage, she sure as hell wasn't a prepubescent child. Just look at her. People overuse the "pedophile" terminology and apparently have no idea what it means.
shareShe wasn't 15 - she's 17 when she meets Emma.
shareI heard 15- she calls herself a junior at the school, I'm not sure what that means in France.
share15 in the graphic novel, but 17 when she meets Emma (and shortly after meeting her she turns 18).
shareThis was a GRAPHIC novel? I didn't know that.
People on the IMDB greatly overuse the term "pedophile". If you are over 30 and have some abnormal attraction to teenagers, the word is actually "ephebophile". "Pedophilia" is an attraction to prepubescent children.
You also have to take into account how old the "offender" is. It is not unusual for a person in his or her twenties to date someone in his or her teens and it's vast misuse of legal resources to prosecute it like they often do in America. Brad Pitt, for instance, was at one point dating Juliette Lewis when he was in his 20's and she was probably 15 or 16. I think that just makes him a normal guy, not even an ephebophile, let alone a "pedophile". Now if as a middle-aged man, he started dating Elle Fanning or someone TODAY, then you could call him names.
Also, France, for better or worse, does not subscribe to America's incredibly arbitrary age of consent laws. If Adele E. was not having her ass eaten by Lea Seydoux in this movie, she might very well be romantically paired in a French movie with Gerard Depardieu! That would be much more disgusting, but c'est la cinema du France.
Yeah, it was a graphic novel by the same name (Blue is the Warmest Color) - personally I liked the movie more, Kechiche changed some things that really made it way better and less melodramatic - but certainly wouldn't be a huge waste if you read it.
shareJust to say that the name of the graphic novel is actually "Blue is a warm color" (le bleu est une couleur chaude). Then "a warm" became "the warmest" for the movie, don't know why they used the superlative form.
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People in general constantly misuse the word pedophile... it's so annoying.
Just to reiterate: A pedophile is someone that has an attraction to prepubescent children.
This whole message board is hilarious!
Hitler had the right idea
Pedophilia is defined as an adult or old adolescent has a sexual attraction to CHILDREN. Adele was not a child, she was 15-15 when we are first introduced to her. This is a very stupid question, OP.
sharePedophilia is when it involves kids, according UN and international law, any person under 12 yrs old is a kid.
shareThis wasn't pedophilia but it was predatory.
To go back to the OP's point though, if Emma had been a man picking up school girls or school boys I'm sure everyone (me included) would judge it differently. There are definately two standards at work. That's not fair. I'm not sure if its unreasonable.
>>> but it was predatory
No it's not. If Emma was 30 years olds, yeah, then maybe you can make a case it was predatory.
But when Emma is only in her early 20's herself, and there really isn't that much of an age difference, then to call it predatory is a knee-jerk reaction, akin to simply labeling Emma a pedophile. You understand that the term "pedophile" doesn't fit Emma, so you want to throw another bad term at her that will.
Plus "predatory" would imply that Adele's youthful age/innocence was a big attraction to Emma, rather then Emma just pursuing Adele simply because Adele was a female that Emma found attractive.
A sexual predator is seeking out someone they can "advantage of". That is not what was going on. It was just 2 females who were attracted to each other, and falling in love.
If you find the relationship to have been inapproaiate/ill-advised because of the age difference/Adele's youthful age, fine. But that doesn't necessary make it "predatory".
Yep, absolutely. If any college dude stalks around a high school for some chick that used a fake ID to get into a club he spotted her at, he's in jail for 10 years. Emma was totally a predator and knew her prey was fairly weak minded and an easy score (and she cheated on her own GF to get at her, for shame).
sharePut simply, no, you are wrong.
And certainly not if said high school girl is past the age of consent. As Adele was.
And you really don't understand the concept of being a "predator" just as a lot of people don't understand the concept of pedophile.
I really hope you are a troll, good sir.
*You met me at a very strange time in my life*
Yep, absolutely. If any college dude stalks around a high school for some chick that used a fake ID to get into a club he spotted her at, he's in jail for 10 years. Emma was totally a predator and knew her prey was fairly weak minded and an easy score (and she cheated on her own GF to get at her, for shame).
LOL what? Adele was having sexual fantasies about Emma after seeing her ONCE, and then FOLLOWED her outside of a club into another bar. Emma knew which high school Adele went to because she told her, obviously because she wanted them to meet again. And what do ridiculous laws have to do with anything here?
It seems you 'forgot' a lot of things.
First that a pedophile is a psychotic person disorder who is generally attracted to prepubescent children, generally age 11 years or younger.
Second Adele was 17 going on 18 so nowhere near the age to attract a pedo.
Third there was about a 1-5 years age difference between them.
Fourth, the age of consent varies from place to place which is also important if you want to scream pedo! The age of consent in France is 15.
Lastly, of course in today's society many women have be known to be pedophiles.
You're an idiot. a pedophile is a person who desires sex with pre pubescent aged persons. Despite our society wanting to keep women defined as children well into their twenties, nature has other ideas, and once a female can become pregnant, she is for all intents and purposes a woman. Sure, some will argue that a teen of say, 13 may be physically mature enough but not psychologically mature, well most women in their 20's and even a lot who are much older are never 'psychologically' mature either.
shareWas EMMA pursuing ADELE to rape her? No. She wasn't even looking for casual sex. They had sex after 2 or 3 dates where they had meaningful conversations. They weren't doing anything wrong because they were dating.
she is stocking a 14 year old outside the high school
i guarantee if it was a story about a 20 something year old man having a sexual relationship with a high schooler everyone would have a quite different view of the movie.