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Gross: Lou demands and coerces sex from a 60-year old woman


I don't care how much makeup and how well Nina Romina made herself look, she was still a 60-year old woman - I mean the actress playing her character. The movie never did disclose her age and I think moviegoers were meant to assume she might have been in her late 40s. I'm sitting in the theater getting grossed out by Lou hitting on 60-year old Nina Romina for sexual favors and the woman agrees. I felt perversely impressed with the Nina Romina character, how a A-type personality, overweening ambitious, educated, highly intelligent woman, even at age 60, has 'flexible ethics and morals', to lend out her body for sex if that's what it takes to achieve her professional career objectives and goals. Don't let anything stand in the way of success and mission achievement, including being reticent about who you give your body to for sex.

I would have preferred if Hollywood hired a known or somewhat known actress from her late 30s to early 40s to play the role of Nina Romina. I can certainly believe a professional career woman acting ruthlessly like that, achieving career success by her mid to late thirties.

It would have been more believable with early 30s something Lou coercing a sexual tryst from a willing, ambitious woman who is in her late 30s to early 40s. Normally you'd feel sympathy for a woman who is coerced into giving up sex. But you don't feel that way for Nina Romina. True, she did not offer sex first and initially resisted Lou's sexual demands. She relented only when she knew she needed Lou's accident videos badly for career security. She could have still said no. But she did the mental calculation and the sex was a small price to pay. Even though Lou may seem like a reptilian character, physically he's a trim, attractive, white man and Nina could have done far worse in agreeing to a sexual partner for business reasons.

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You are obviously oblivious to the fact that the actress is married to the writer/director of this movie, that negates everything you think about the appropriateness of her playing Nina.

Lou

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Ha, ha, ha, ha...so right! Welcome to LA LA Land.

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Obviously oblivious... obviously... oblivious. Obliviously obvious. Obliviobviously.

I'm done.

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True. A woman her age would have told him to *beep* off and filed sexual harassment.

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You don't get it. It has nothing to do with a "woman her age." Nina was a power hungry individual who was willing to sleep with him to get what she wants.

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Which wouldn't get her anywhere since she'd be out of the job soon anyway. She allowed him to do what he wanted to her in exchange for his dedication as a nightcrawler to providing her with the most gruesome and compelling video footage. This was a mutually beneficial arrangement, or at least that appears to be how she viewed it.

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And that last scene between them, where they are discussing the recent footage, with Rick's dying body on screen behind them, there's a sexual tone and sexual innuendos. It implies she gets off on the violence in some way, just as he does. He makes that clear when he refers to himself in this way, "What if it's not that I don't understand people, but that I don't like them?" He enjoys seeing people hurt and hurting them. He's a psychopath and a sadist. He should spend the rest of his life in jail.

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She looked like a hot MILF

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I think her character was perfect. She was aging and her career was declining. Lou drove home that point and exploited her desperation.

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Not just any 60 year-old woman, Rene Russo, who is a GILF.

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Yes. She was smokin in this movie

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I second that.

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OP is unfamiliar with the spiking trends in porn. Not only does age not seem to deter the libido, it is even a specific niche. So, no. It is perfectly normal for a very young man and a much older woman to get it on.

I have personally had an experience with close to 20 years difference between us. There was no extortion nor blackmail but that scenario would have been excellent role-play.

Renee Russo was a fantastic cast.

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I don't know you age, but I am sure that most guys under 40 are would be jealous of you.
I am sure that this taste for older women is more common than people think. I remember when I was in high school the chemistry teacher pushing almost 60 was so hot to me and a couple of other male students. Girls hated her, she was so sexy and she didn't even have local, conventional beauty to back her up!

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Age have nothing to do is ridiculous think a woman in her 50' or 60's is going to be radical diferent from a 20 or 30's like after certain age woman stop having sexual desires or fetish's the relation between Lou and Nina was more of a power relationship some women and men find sexual placer in control others and some others have sexual placer in feel used and even abused ¿never hear of powerful men paying prostitutes to insult them and humilliated them? Nina give me that vibe she enjoy feel subdued by a men who is below to her, human sexuality is complex and is not like stop at certain age a person in his 60's would be very probable be turn on by the same thing, scenarios, and fantasies wich turn them on in their's 20's

About Lou is obvious he is not a romantic guy, for him the placer come from dominate the person who pay him, his boss, even when she is not technically his boss because he is a freelance she is the closest thing he have to a boss

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Women of ALL ages are interested in sex and Nina wasn’t coerced into anything, she got exactly what she wanted out of Lou. It was clear that Nina being coy at first was a front and was turned on by Lou’s pursuit of her her.

And Russo was smoking hot in this and well cast!

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