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Pogo_Marimo posted...

Yeah, but it isn't. So what's the use in imagining? We as the audience know she's not actually kidnapping him anyways, we know she's just clumsily trying to seduce him because it's a comedy about a man finally coming of age and a woman learning to understand people on a deeper level. He's misunderstanding it. That's what makes it a comedy. You know, sometimes comedy are a little controversial or edgy in order to be funny? You know that thing that comedy does? Because it's a fucking comedy and not a recommendation on how a woman should date a man?

So what's the point of recontextualizing the whole thing in a way to make it look as bad as possible? Just so you can be outraged about how "problematic" it is?

No. Seriously. Watch that trailer again, but picture in your mind the Jennifer Lawrence character being played by 39 year old Andrew Garfield, and the 19 year old being played by Jenna Ortega.

A shy introverted 19 year old girl basically being forced to go on dates with a guy double their age, all for the sake of the girls parents paying off the older man.

If you don't see the cringe in that, then I don't know if you'll ever understand it.