Just shocking that this was created. If the genders were reversed it would not be permitted.
These days because it is GAY they can get away with anything. Mean while this is basically a grooming/pedophile film and they show the relationship in a positive light. It is awful.
You do realize that if it's a teenager, it is not pedophilia right?
shareMaybe it isn't actually all as simple as that and the film perhaps doesn't really condone or condemn the acts and relationship too much but just tells a story and allows audience to make their own judgements?
And isn't lesbian or otherwise "pedophilia" a little misleading term if the girl in question is 16?
And there have been plenty of films with genders reversed that were accepted and even considered classics, one film from the 70s by Luchino Visconti entitled "Death in Venice" (1971) even had a man longing for a younger boy, same with 2001's film "L.I.E." (2001) as well. (Even if in those, and last 2 examples, neither films condone it as such.)
Apparently from what I have heard, since you mentioned "double standards", although I haven't seen the film yet, but the film also includes a scene of gender reversal r**e in it as well, with the woman who is the perpetrator and the man a victim, and yet despite that, and beyond even legal and moral implications of such, we are meant to understand the woman who herself from what I've heard has a difficult and traumatic past, and the film also includes traditional such scene as well, but maybe the film in a way is making a kind of comment on human nature as well as differences between men and women here too, even if it doesn't of course condone it despite the fact that the question of facing consequences for the woman for the deed aren't seemingly raised either.
No matter the sexual orientation of the characters, it shouldn't be permitted. To be fair I've seen a lot of Lesbian film reviewers dismiss the film as deeply troubling and not in a good way.
It's a film that really Evan Rachel Wood probably should have stayed away from considering her past. It's troubling to me they wanted to make Laura the victim of the film, when in reality she should have been the villain with Eva as the victim. Directors and ERW can offer up some sympathy for Laura, with her sexual abuse history. But is unforgivable to base the whole film around her and totally sideline the victim, we don't even know what happens to Eva in the end.
You can see why the film has been met with tepid reviews for that reason.
Hey, at least they’re hot lesbians.
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