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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Pretty Baby is a 1978 film where she portrays a child prostitute. There’s a scene where her virginity is auctioned off and a main plot point is that a grown man falls in love with her and wants to marry her. I watched it as a young teen (~12) and I was horrified.

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UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
To be clear, the film treats this as the atrocity that it is and is based on a true story.

You probably wouldn’t describe this relationship as “falling in love” if you saw it as an adult. Nothing about this relationship is portrayed as healthy.

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- Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, but it seems most of the people watching that movie took exactly the wrong message away from it, if that article is any indication.
  
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  - UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You think a shock article in High Times is a barometer for what “most people” took away from the movie?
    
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    Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    To quote Scrollone@feddit.it elsewhere in the conversations:
    
    It makes me think about the Italian movie from the '80s called “Maladolescenza”, which is now considered child porn by many countries, thus illegal.
    
    I also saw a newspaper from the time in which they were interviewing people that came out of the movie theater, asking them what they thought of the movie. It was almost as disgusting as this article.
    
    So certainly a fair number of people did.
    
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