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Summary: A cat-and-mouse psychotic thriller as incisive as it is stylish, Hard Candy delivers a provocative take on the revenge drama while jangling nerves at every turn. The film plunges us into an unstable universe where we cannot readily identify the "good guy" in the tense confrontation between a 14-year-old girl and the 32-year-old man she suspects of pedophilia and murder. (Lionsgate)
Another film that is arrogant in it's formula, not leaving you with any background information for you to support the supposed protagonist, nor enough to hate the supposed antagonist. Therefore the discomfort of the scenes is doubled by the director because of his cheap-shot tactic of providing no pathos for either character. It's pretty reminiscent of Haneke's manical style of directing; a masterpiece in it's ability to torture the audience.
It starts of great but by the second half it gets stale and slightly boring. With the subject matter I expected it to be much more interesting. The girls character is annoying, unbelievable and unlikable. And the ending is just laughable. All in all a mediocre film that didn't live up to my expectations.
Hard Candy is a solid revenge flick about a girl attempting to toy with and teach a lesson to a suspected pedophile. Hard Candy does not dance around that subject matter, and instead faces it head on. The acting is top-notch, and although none of the characters are ones you want to root for, that doesn't really detract from the way the film tells its story. Although dialogue driven, it manages to keep up the thriller mentality by keeping the audience engaged and tense at the same time.
Loved it. Very early you get a surprise twist (always a good thing IMO) and are left wondering who to root for the entire film. At the end you know, but feel for both sides. Though filmed in proper chronological order, I was somehow reminded of Memento.
This movie is a weird character study..who really is the bad person...a kid for drugging and kidnapping a guy and torturing him...or the guy who stalks young girls on line...this movie is a very good movie and some moments are really intense...very unsettling ending that really opens up the question of human ethics...