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Eye Candy
by Steven (movies profile)
Dec 27, 2007
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14 people found this review helpful
I don't know if I have ever been so riveted by a film from beginning to end like Hard Candy. The acting was great and the story was even more powerful. I sat there from the opening scene, which is a chat room conversation between a 14 year-old girl and a 32 year-old photographer and their plan to meet each other and what they want to do. Instantly you are intriuged by the conversation and the relationship between these two. They meet at a coffee shop and hit it off right away. But why is Jeff (Patrick Wilson) going along with this. He seems like a fairly successful guy and has good looks and a nice appearance. But this girl, Hayley (Ellen Page) who seems homely and is way smarter than any college professor-she claims to be an honor student-teases and always knows the right thing to say. She talks him into taking her to his home. He doesn't seem to be planning on doing anything with her, but she seems to push him into the situations. He makes them drinks, and she refuses, saying "We were tought not to drink anything we didn't mix ourselves." After she makes them a drink, she insists on him taking her picture. But before the camera shutter clicks, he's passed out and on the floor. When he awakens, he's tied to a chair. Now she is in control and is now taking him hostage in his own home. She wants to get out of him what he does with teenage girls and what happened to Donna, a girl who is missing. Soon she has him on a table, like a operating room...to do the unthinkable...perform a surgery, if he doesn't cooperate.
This is a very gripping film. It definitely could have been more graphic, I almost wish they would have. This movie has high intensity and quite a thriller, to the last moment. Hopefully it will teach some sick people...a lesson! A- |
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