Hyfi
12-24-2009, 06:12 AM
OK, this is not a new movie but new to me. After enjoying Ellen Page in Juno, I set out to watch as many of her flicks as I can find.
Hard Candy is one intense movie with only 2 characters throughout except for one short scene with a neighbor at the door. If you liked Misery, you may like this one but guys, it's gonna make you cringe what she does to the guy.
Short description:
14 y/old Haley meets 30 something Jeff in a chat room and they get friendly to the point where she asks to meet him and gets him to take her to his home.
Turns out Jeff is somewhat of a pedophile / photographer whose walls are lined with pics of underage girls. He swears he just takes pictures. Haley ends up drugging Jeff and when he wakes up he is tied up. This is where it starts to hurt just watching this flick. My wife bagged out at this point.
By the end of the movie Jeff admits to a few things but the biggest twist to the movie was at the end.
SPOILER-DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE TWIST
As Haley convinces Jeff to off himself, instead of his old girlfriend finding everything out, he tells her he was actually there when a girl Haley knew was killed but he didn't do it, just watched. Haley tells him she knows who it was and that he said the same thing just before he died. So, it turns out that this little innocent teenage girl, already took care of the first guy in a similar fashion and had Jeff's fate totally calculated out well in advance.
Ellen Page plays a totally convincing part here for a 16 year old actress but I don't know how she pulled this off so convincingly.
Hard Candy is one intense movie with only 2 characters throughout except for one short scene with a neighbor at the door. If you liked Misery, you may like this one but guys, it's gonna make you cringe what she does to the guy.
Short description:
14 y/old Haley meets 30 something Jeff in a chat room and they get friendly to the point where she asks to meet him and gets him to take her to his home.
Turns out Jeff is somewhat of a pedophile / photographer whose walls are lined with pics of underage girls. He swears he just takes pictures. Haley ends up drugging Jeff and when he wakes up he is tied up. This is where it starts to hurt just watching this flick. My wife bagged out at this point.
By the end of the movie Jeff admits to a few things but the biggest twist to the movie was at the end.
SPOILER-DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE TWIST
As Haley convinces Jeff to off himself, instead of his old girlfriend finding everything out, he tells her he was actually there when a girl Haley knew was killed but he didn't do it, just watched. Haley tells him she knows who it was and that he said the same thing just before he died. So, it turns out that this little innocent teenage girl, already took care of the first guy in a similar fashion and had Jeff's fate totally calculated out well in advance.
Ellen Page plays a totally convincing part here for a 16 year old actress but I don't know how she pulled this off so convincingly.