Fox News wrote:Indeed, 12-year-old Cody Hanford, who plays Fanning’s boyfriend in the provocative and poorly written outing, may actually become more of the focus than even the star.
In the film, his character lures Fanning’s into a barn and then watches as she’s raped. Hanford and Fanning also have numerous kissing scenes, some in which they’re half-dressed.
IMDB user wrote:In fact, this isn't really a film most people can relate to, given the unusual and irrelevant nature of Lewellen's life (no mother, idiot father, poor in the old-fashioned Deep South, and she is constantly behaving precociously - not because she thinks it is fun, as poor Fanning seemed to think, but because she is a wrecked, traumatized girl who doesn't really know any other). We are constantly treated to shots of Lewellen's underwear, Buddy shirtless and barefoot, and then there's the pointless scene where two naked children are tied together with a live snake and threatened at gunpoint. It makes you feel dirty just watching the film.
The behavior of Lewellen is disturbing, but there is this nasty sense that she is "asking" for the rape, given that she is constantly engaging in sexual behavior and then performs a striptease right before the rape itself. As this is not the most likely way in which girls aged 9-12 are going to be raped, the story seems silly, and with no relation to today. It is not something modern young girls would identify with (and is another reason why they shouldn't watch this film).
The film is cruel, it is strange, it is entirely about sex, and it is boring and badly-written and made.
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Sounds perfectThe film is cruel, it is strange, it is entirely about sex, and it is boring and badly-written and made.
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