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Oct 07, 2014Janice21383 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Re. pedophiles: to paraphrase that quote from Dazed and Confused, you get older, and they stay the same age. There's not much to be done about them -- or is there? Viewers with conventional notions about child molesters, little girls, and gender roles are in for a rough ride in this uncompromising cat and mouse thriller. Hard Candy has come under some harsh criticism -- allegedly because the lead character is an unbearably precocious know-it-all; but this is merely to say she is played by Ellen Page. More disturbingly, connoisseurs of rape/revenge movies reject this film, apparently because SPOILER the girl is not raped, nor sufficiently terrorized before she takes revenge.