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I'm used to associating movies from the same period, there's always something interesting about it.
This time, Hard Candy is a feature film, while Catching the Friedmans is a documentary.
The difference in genre does not affect the subtle connection between them.
Because there are so many similarities. They are also works produced in the American context.
Keywords: pedophile WHO DO YOU BELIEVE True and False
Both films deal with a sensitive and serious topic - pedophilia,
a word that makes people who have the same fetish as Uncle Mike have some fear.
Both films have a smeared male protagonist, and they both try to defend themselves. However it is almost useless.
If "Catch the Friedmans" only makes you look lost, "Hardfruit" will make you completely despair.
Two films, in the language of all, none of them, were directed by the screenwriter, or the director. Who can you totally trust?
Including the introduction to the entire show on the cover of "Hard Candy", I can't make me believe that Jeff didn't say he was the murderer before committing suicide, he just said he was just a bystander, just admitted that he really just likes this type picture, he just believed he might have the side of himself that Hayley described.
And "Catch the Friedmans", although there are many records of the real impact of the family in that year, this whole family is from warm to broken, although everyone in it has their own opinions, although the father does collect child pornography pictures It doesn't mean that he really did anything to the students in his own computer training class. But my father, for some unknown reason, confessed his guilt. Many people will be in various states of confusion after watching the movie. Some people like to prove their arguments with their own inferences, but please remember that these are just It's all just speculation without any evidence.
Just like in Hard Candy, Hailey used her extremely careful inference to send Jeff to another world without any evidence. And Jeff's eyes are complicated, so complicated that he has everything and nothing at all. What we don't know.
Hard candy, is said to be the slang term of the American Internet, which means underage girls. In this place, hard once accurately showed Hailey's character, and candy showed her identity. Is she a girl with an unimaginable character, or is she a lunatic? Or she is a wise man.
I've been discussing the two of them together for so long, so let me talk about it separately.
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Hailey is definitely not pretty, but she is absolutely brilliant. After three weeks on the Internet, she had a deep analysis of Jeff and her. When she agreed to meet, she knew that she was going to present a childish girl in front of her. And the method she uses is definitely not simply to say something nonchalant, or pretend to be cute, she is discussing a profound topic with this man.
The naivety of a girl is definitely not ignorance of things, but a maturity that is extremely inconsistent with her age at an age. This kind of maturity has become an extremely cute naivety in the eyes of adults. Because little girls always want to be very mature, and women like to make themselves more like children. Hailey absolutely grasped the hearts of adult men and women, so his conversation with Jeff seemed to be easy. From time to time, he will show off some small talents that are not surprising in the eyes of adults. When she successfully entered Jeff's room, when she refused Jeff's white water, when she let Jeff drink the drink she prepared, the nightmare that Jeff never thought of in his life began like this.
Hailey has a keen observation ability, and she will make full use of every detail, so that when I am sitting in front of the screen, I believe what Jeff said, Hailey's sharp sarcasm, let my heart over and over again Leave Jeff once.
I don't know if I should say that the director is still polite, or should I say that the director is cruel, he didn't show the bloody scenes directly, but through the calm expression when 14-year-old Hailey castrated Jeff, and occasionally read medical books, and then After another operation, the operation was still successful, and it was unexpectedly so simple in Hai Li's mouth.
While avoiding Jeff's pursuit of herself after escaping, Hailey also cleaned up the scene so that there was no trace of her left. When you saw this, you were slapped on the back by a 14-year-old girl Chills.
When Jeff found Hailey, we all knew that when a man was tortured to this point, even if it wasn't a pervert, he might do irrational things now, but Hailey was already on guard, holding Jeff The pistol, the skillful pull, and the impeccable words finally made Jeff commit suicide.
Is Hailey a vengeful female fighter who exists to stamp out pedophiles, or is she just a smart lunatic?
Is Jeff a dirty, perverted pedophile criminal, or just an innocent photographer? Or just a bystander who witnessed the incident?
The movie does not directly give strong proof.
The movie is said to be based on a true story, however, the director didn't tell me what is true? What is the answer?
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film "Catch the Friedmans" starts with a cheerful song, the images are all home video, the song has a light melody, a warm picture, but the lyrics are talking, and now it's time to tell the story of a lonely old man ...The
movie uses a lot of family images to explain the family's character relationships. Just when we were immersed in this warm family, the police seized a batch of child pornography pictures, began to break into the family, and launched a series of Their investigations, all of a sudden, the image of the father, a respected teacher, was ruined and turned into a person who liked to collect pornographic images of boys and involved gay, homosexual characters in American society. It is absolutely possible for you to spend half your life in prison on three charges, but the police are still investigating, and one of their sons has become a nastier person than his father.
The whole first half of the movie made me believe that the perpetrators are them, they are the heinous people, even though the father's younger brother, the son, is defending himself. But to no avail. Then, in a letter from his father himself, he admitted that he liked the same sex, and that he had had a relationship with his younger brother when he was very young. As for this, the younger brother gave a complete denial, saying that he did not remember at all. The father also admitted that there were several little boys who made him have sexual impulses.
However, can these really show that the father has really done something ulterior to his students? The first half of the movie said that the elementary school students who were investigated at that time all said that they had what kind of experience they had. But suddenly, a psychologist said, the question for children should be do you remember what they did to you? Not what kind of question forms did they do to you? Children, because they usually want their answers to please adults, often say, yes. Say the answer that adults have in mind.
Then the film goes back a few years and starts interviewing students who have grown up, and they say that they don't remember having that experience at all. When the police came over, they just felt annoyed, so they answered casually, and some people hypnotized them because they really couldn't remember, and then they might remember something and said something, but they didn't quite remember what they said. Then there is no victim, how come the accused?
The father was charged with more than 200 crimes, while the son spent 15 years in prison. Did the father plead guilty back then to help his son escape, or was he really willing? And the son was really abused by his father? Or is it just a play for the court to mitigate the crime? After being so insulted? Why do they all respect their father so much?
If those students have been treated badly. Why should they go back to this computer training class again and again? Are they being sadistic?
We watched the movie with many questions and waited for the director to give me an answer. However, the director did not give me a standard Hollywood movie. He gave me a documentary in the true sense. The image was completely real, without any editor's Subjective, the director's point of view did not lead to any party. In the end, the father passed away and left his son a good insurance money. After the son is released from prison, he can live a good life.
A sweet beginning and a sweet ending of the movie.
However, it also gives people a deep question and also makes the audience's heart tangled.
Catch Friedman and Hard Candy have so many similarities, but they are two completely different individuals. At least, the Friedmans are still living apart from their father. In Hard Candy, the only male protagonist is forced to commit suicide by a little girl. They all have a certain truth, but they don't tell you what is the truth?
Perhaps, this is the truth. When you watch the film again, you will not naturally become one of them. You
don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, and it’s just because you are in this mountain.
Maybe, you don't need to know what is the truth?
Just to let you know that in a certain time and space, such a thing happened.
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