Last movie you watched......

It is.

 

That's not how I saw it at all. Moonrise Kingdom had more "pedophilia" than Licorice Pizza did.

Hell, I forgot halfway through the movie how young Gary was because he basically was a functioning adult propping his entire household up. The mother was hardly there.

I didn't come to the conclusion at the end of the movie that Alana was some kind of sexual predator. I mean, if you just want to take the hard-line stance of Alana is 25 and Gary is 15 and call it pedophilia, I suppose that's your choice. Just not the way I saw it.

 

Well at one point in the movie she said she was 28, corrected herself and said oh I mean 25.

I thought they were going to skirt it and keep it as a friendship, but at the end they didn't. And yes, absolutely a woman in her 20s, whether she's 28 or 25, entering a sexual/romantic relationship with a 15-year-old is pedophilia. And I maintain if the roles were reversed and the older person here was a guy and the younger was a girl, you would not be arguing this point with me. They get away with it because she's smaller than he is, and the physical representation is that they're more equal. But if it was a 6'4 25-year-old man with a 5'1 15-year-old girl, the visuals would have told you in your gut that this is pedophilia. I love slice of life movies, but a slice of no one's life should be an adult in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with a child.

Was it a predatory relationship? No. But just because it's not predatory doesn't mean that it's not an adult entering an illegal relationship with a child.

 

Pedophilia is sex with pre-pubescent children, generally considered to be 13 and under.

 

Cool. Let's all make movies with 25-year-olds falling into romanic relationships with 15-year-olds and pretend it doesn't include an adult and a child.

Better yet, I want all movies to include scenes where a 15 year old girl asks to see the penis of her 25 year old male friend. And he drops trou. Not nearly so charming as the breast scene, no?

They must be one man on this board that understand the points I'm making?

 

Sure.

It's still not pedophilia.

 

Then allow us to discuss ephebophilia. It seems to me that you all think it's fine in this movie, but didn't like it when Matt Gaetz appeared to be engaged in it. Why is it ok in this movie?

 

Don't know anything about the movie other than the title.

 

I actually cringed a bit at the breasts scene.

Also, I'm fine with a level of suspension of disbelief when it comes to film and television. You have to accept a certain level of disbelief that a 15-year-old would be that advanced mentally and professionally, that he would have the guts to ask out someone who was 10 years older than him. That's not normal.

As for if the roles were reversed, I'm not going there. It's inconsequential because that wasn't the movie. I get that you're creeped out about a 25-year-old woman potentially dating a 15-year-old boy, and that's fine. But it's not pedophilia.

 

I went to the movie last night and was deeply disturbed by its casual depiction of a romantic and potentially sexual relationship between an adult and a teenager. I'm assuming you're an adult so I think I can say fuck you.

 

I'm terribly sorry and I will issue 12,000 apologies for using the wrong word. It still depicts a potentially sexual relationship, and definitely a romantic one, between an adult and an underage minor who does not have the agency to enter into a sexual relationship with the adult.

 

Fuck you, dumbass.

The movie isn't about pedophilia, no matter how disturbed you were.