
HARD CANDY
Jeff is a photographer thirty. Hayley a fourteen year old girl but much, much smarter than his age might suggest. The two, after long chats on the Internet agree to meet. After a drink and a slice of cake go to the home of Jeff, but what could be a happy day and nice for the photographer turns into a nightmare without end ...
A beautiful villa (great job by set designer on a microscopic budget), two players pushed to the limits of their possibilities of expression, a series of dialogues that border on perfection and often hidden violence that affects much more than a thousand scenes splatter.Hard Candy plays on the boundaries and the zone ' shadow reversing often assumed the role of executioner, mixing sadism and pedophilia in forcing the viewer to the main, the only true and valid legacy of the French Revolution, or the continuous exercise of dubbio.Ci are several moments during which we are almost ready to believe and side with either party in the game only to then change his mind soon after, just half a sentence, a smile out of place, an allusion or a hysterical tone of too much that we immediately changed my mind and do not know what to think.
by an interview with one of the writers:
"The script is built around the theme of responsibility and how much responsibility each person takes and how much responsibility is assumed as a result and how they are modulated their values \u200b\u200bat the end of the film, having sided with one of the protagonists, and then you change your point of view and think that you should have side with the other actors because in the end the situation takes a different turn. Some people wish that there were people like Hailey who become vigilantes, but we show that it's really complicated to put into practice.
you can see the end of the film she wears on her face the full brunt of the day, she took on the responsibility that Jeff has refused to take. Jeff would have preferred to die rather to accept responsibility for what he did. For me this is one of the main features of Western society: we do not like the responsibility, because we are afraid and have dangerous consequences. "
you can see the end of the film she wears on her face the full brunt of the day, she took on the responsibility that Jeff has refused to take. Jeff would have preferred to die rather to accept responsibility for what he did. For me this is one of the main features of Western society: we do not like the responsibility, because we are afraid and have dangerous consequences. "