Scenes that would never fly after #MeToo

I knew we weren't that different, you and I.

 

I wonder how the movie Once would go over today.

It's really a beautiful movie featuring the Oscar-award winning (and richly deserved) song Falling Slowly. And the actors in the movie, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglova were a real life couple and band (The Swell Season), so the movie is kind of about their romance. But Hansard is nearly 18 years older than Irglova. He first met her when she was 13, then took up with her when they made Once, when she was 18 or 19. He was instrumental in getting her career going. There is a documentary about their subsequent tour as The Swell Season, during which their relationship fell apart. It's not easy to find a lot written online about the relationship. I did see them in concert during this time, very close to the stage, and Hansard has overwhelming charisma. I can see how she was swept up by him, what with that and her career taking off while working with him.

She says in the documentary she was in love with him. I don't think she'd call it a #MeToo. But I do think there's something kinda creepy about their relationship.

This is kind of a weird line from an article about them:

The Bittersweet End of a Swell Season of Love