Did anybody else get the feeling that they were trying to show sexual tension between Howie and Grace. They were 12. The music, sharing a bed at the hotel while the romantic movie was showing, the dance. It felt kinda creepy to me. I like that nothing really happened, but it just seemed weird to me.
shareNah. It only would've been creepy if that deputy sheriff was truly as perverted as he seemed.
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I just saw the movie, too, and strongly disagree with these comments. 12-year-olds are perfectly capable of having attractions to members of the opposite sex. But they typically don't know what those feeling mean, or how to deal with them. Note that when they were in bed in the motel room, Grace/Shadow turned away from Howie when they saw the kissing scene on TV.
There was nothing remotely inappropriate or unusual in the behavior of the two kids toward each other in any scene in the movie.
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The sexual tension is carried over from the book, in which the girl was actually indicated to be 13, and occasionally in need of a tampon. (The boy's age was never given, but in an early chapter of the book, it mentions that he noticed she had a little bit more hair in certain places other than her head that he didn't, and that he figured this meant she was a little more physically mature than he was since he didn't have any of that yet.) They don't do anything too naughty with each other in the book either, but it does mention more about people being suspicious that they are than the movie does.
That amount of sexual tension is fairly realistic, at least in my experience. I learned what sex was when I was 11, but it wasn't until I was about 13 or 14 that I could understand why boys and girls would actually want to do stuff like that with each other. Knowing and understanding are two different things; when I first figured it out, the whole idea of a guy doing that to a gal seemed kind of disgusting and I couldn't help wondering why anybody would want to. It's not until you hit puberty that you start thinking you might like to try that sex thing you've heard about for yourself; and for me even after that, it took another year or so to figure why any gal would be willing to let a guy "have his way" with her (as I thought of it at the time).
The point of that ambiguous scene in the hotel room, I think, was basically to tell you "Yeah, we know what you people at the age of understanding in our audience are thinking, but no, this isn't that kind of movie."
There would be sexual tension between most 12-year-old boys and girls, no question.
shareyes you are right , it was the only bad scene on the entire movie , Director / writer must be pervert to put such scene in such great movie even if there was such scene in the book .
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