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A woman sits alone on the steps of a pet store's storage room, in the darkness, fantasizing that she is being stroked and kissed.
After the confusion, she left a meaningful smile.
Seeing this, you may guess: this is a story about women who freely explore their sexual needs and desires. In fact, the woman is just imitating. Her name is Elizabeth and she is an actress.
Twenty years ago, a bizarre incident occurred in this town. Grace, a 36-year-old married woman, had a relationship with her son's classmate, 13-year-old Joey, at this pet store.
The affair was broken by the owner of the pet store on the spot, and the relationship between the two had to be made public and became the focus of gossip tabloids.
Grace, the protagonist of the incident, was arrested by the police on suspicion of sexually assaulting a minor. The first time she was arrested, she pleaded guilty and promised not to contact Joey again, receiving a suspended sentence and a commutation. But not long after they came out, Grace and Joey were caught cheating again and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
gave birth to her and Joey's first daughter in prison. After being released from prison, they entered into marriage under the eyes of secular criticism, formed a new family, and the two had a total of three children. In order to escape from the living environment of being maliciously packaged, they keep moving, trying their best to maintain this forbidden love, enjoying the pleasure of being the enemy of the world, and hypnotizing each other This is true love.
Twenty years later, an uninvited visit shattered the couple's illusion of peace. Hollywood took a fancy to this story and planned to make it into a movie, and Elizabeth was chosen by the filmmaker to play the heroine of the story, Grace. In order to play the play well, she came to Grace and Joey's home after getting permission to invade the couple's life with the need to figure out the thoughts and motivations of the characters.
The first time they met, Grace signed for a box of shit express in front of her.
When Elizabeth arrived, she visited Grace's relatives and friends. But her act of visiting without saying hello and spying on her privacy regardless of the occasion made Grace feel rude. For example, asking questions ⬇️ frequently at the dinner table
Walk around with old acquaintances ⬇️ who are familiar with Grace
Do everything possible to extract useful information ⬇️ from Joey's mouth
She met with the lawyer in charge of Grace's case, and learned from the other party that Grace's so-called cake business was supported by a few kind neighbors.
The details of the incident were obtained from the owner of the pet shop, so the scene at the beginning of the article appeared. From George, the son born to Grace and her ex-husband, I learned that Grace was sexually assaulted by her brothers when she was a child...
In order to find out more, Elizabeth takes the opportunity to be alone with Joey. Under the pretext of fixing the ventilator nozzle, let him into the house, and physical contact will naturally occur.
Constantly emphasizing that Joey is still young and has every chance to start over, gradually let Joey off his guards.
Just like when Grace and Joey were in the pet shop, Elizabeth also had a relationship with him.
She mistakenly thought that through these visits and private investigations, she would be able to grasp the whole picture, but she did not realize that she was only part of Grace's plan. And Grace has always been like a fog of mystery. Because he saw through Elizabeth's actions, he reminded her to say hello in advance next time.
And when Elizabeth believed George's story that Grace was sexually assaulted by her brothers, she coldly told Elizabeth: Don't take it seriously.
Only Joey, who was imprisoned at the age of 13. After the exchange with Elizabeth, he thought that he was finally "an adult", but from the other party's playful attitude, he realized that he was being used.
All Elizabeth wanted was to trick Grace into writing a love letter from him.
When he got home, he sat in a chair in the corner and regurgitated on his own to reflect on the feeling of being disappointed.
Awakened, Grace senses that Joey is not in the right mood and asks him what happened. At this point, Joey asked, "If I had been... Not ready to make these decisions?"
Glace was shocked, and he continued, "Maybe I was too young at the time?"
Elizabeth's arrival upset the balance and made him start to look at his life anew. This is the first time Joey has questioned the relationship between two people, the so-called true love relationship, and it is also the first time he has tried to seek an answer for his 13-year-old self.
The staccato sentences and unfinished sentence structure all prove that he is not good at this aspect. And all the questions were blocked back by Grace's sentence "Tomorrow is a graduation ceremony".
This story, the film with its ups and downs, is director Todd Hines's new film, "May December". (In English colloquialisms, May December stands for young May and older December, a metaphor for young and old.) ）
The inspiration for the film comes from the Marie Kay Letuno case in the late 90s of the last century. Mary Kay Letourneau, a married elementary school teacher, caught her eye with 8-year-old Vili Fualaau among the many students she taught. She saw in her file that Willy had attended kindergarten twice and was older than the children in her class.
Mary found Willy popular among her students because of her talent for drawing, which led her to treat Willy as a special child.
But at the time, the two men only knew each other briefly. When Willy was 12 years old, Mary officially became his teacher, and the two developed strange feelings for each other. Willy and his companions made a $20 bet that they would catch Mary.
The young students admired the teacher's light and should have been stopped by the teacher, but Mary gradually fell in the favor of Willy. In 1996, a police officer was on patrol and inspected suspicious vehicles parked on the side of the road when he found Mary, 34, and Willy, 13. When questioned by the police, Mary explains that she is Willy's teacher and that the two are just getting along normally. Eventually's mother was also called by the police, but she was convinced that there was nothing wrong with her child being with the teacher. As a result, the police's questioning was not answered, and the two got along secretly for a year. In 1997, Mary's husband, Steve, discovered a love letter that confirmed the relationship between his wife and the student. He sought advice from relatives, who immediately contacted the police, and Mary was arrested on suspicion of child rape. While awaiting the verdict, she and Willy's first daughter, Audrey, was born. She then pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child crimes, reached an agreement with prosecutors to "no longer be able to approach Willy", received a suspended sentence and a reduced sentence, and was released after serving three months in prison. However, in 1998, Mary, who had just been released from prison on parole, broke her promise to "never approach Willy again" and was caught by the police in her car again. She was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for wilfully violating the terms of the sentence. At this time, she became pregnant again and gave birth to her second daughter with Willy in prison. In 1999, she and Steve officially divorced, and the two had 4 children, and the custody of them belonged to her ex-husband.
For the past 7 years, Wiley's mother has continued to push him to date other women. When Mary was released from prison in 2004, she was asked not to contact Willy, who was 21 at the time. However, as an adult, Willy applied to the court to revoke the decree prohibiting Mary from seeing him, and the two came together as a matter of course. In 2005, Mary and Willy were married in Seattle.
This affair had become the focus of the news at the time, and the two men took advantage of the public attention to publish two books: "Un seul crime, l'amour" and "If Loving You is Wrong".
At the same time, they began to participate in television interviews, always united in the front to prove that they were true love for each other. Mary once said in the documentary: "I'm sorry that he's the father of my children and that we're married, and he's the love of my life? No, I don't." ”
Willy had the same opinion on the matter: "Anyway, it's a real love story. ”
When everyone thought that this relationship had gone through twists and turns and could finally reach a plateau. In 2017, Willy, who had been married for 12 years, filed for separation, but Mary refused. The two had a brief reconciliation, but officially ended their marriage in 2019.
However, when he learned that Mary had been diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, Willy moved back to her and accompanied and cared for her from morning till night until Mary's death. Similar to Joey's sudden awakening at the end of the film, Willy is also shocked to realize that his young self has overlooked many things.
And when asked what he would think of his daughter if she was dating someone older than them. Wiley's attitude was one of resolute opposition.
After Mary's death, he re-examines the relationship and realizes that it was not a healthy relationship between them from the beginning without having to go through Mary's "who was the boss" questioning.
In the film, Grace also acts as a weakling, constantly emphasizing that Joey is the dominant person in this relationship. The actor Julian Moore's opinion on the character of Grace is that she does not have pedophilia, but princess syndrome. There is a strong need to be saved by a young, masculine man. In this way, both parties can deny the age difference, as power can rightfully return to the hands of men. So Grace has always played a weak person, when Joey goes to bed with the smell of cigarettes, when someone cancels the cake order, and when Joey brings up the feelings of the year, she uses tears to interpret this weakness, so that Joey realizes that she is the strong person in this relationship. transferred the guilt caused by infidelity to Joey, so that she could achieve self-consistency.
And Joy's way of achieving self-consistency is to keep the letter that Grace wrote to him back then, as evidence of being seduced.
And because he didn't dare to put forward his inner thoughts, he could only secretly cheat on his playmate who was mentally cheating and raising butterflies, and under the temptation of Elizabeth, he also cheated physically.
The film's prototype, the story of a woman seducing a young man, quickly made headlines.
The reason why it spreads so quickly and causes widespread discussion is that the public Xi is more accustomed to the opposite, and when a new case appears, it will be more eye-catching and more satisfied with the public's curiosity. Natalie Portman also said when she received the script that "it's interesting to see women commit crimes that are generally committed by men, because it's the exceptions to the rules that are the most interesting."
Director Todd Hines asks the question of a woman who sacrifices many family responsibilities in the process of complying with her desires, and who is much more demanding of her than a man who does the same thing as her. One side is too common, discussed too much, and then loses its specificity. The other situation has a strong impact because it is rare. Women cheat in marriage, inappropriate love, age difference...... Either one can make a huge wave. Under the moral judgment, everyone despises the parties, but they can't help but join in to watch the fun. Just like in the film, the people in the town, like Elizabeth, look at Grace with disdain or disdain, and at the same time can't help but participate in it. Send a lump of shit. Custom cakes made by Grace. People who know what happened are always happy to tell the story to others. Even if it has nothing to do with you, the passion for watching fun can last for 20 years. Everyone is so immersed in the satisfaction of their own desires that they have no time to care for others.
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