befade - Hard Candy was an exceptional piece of film. I had no idea what I was picking up but it is definately worth a look.

I was really, really thrown by the ending; and not in a The Sixth Sense kinda way where you get it or you don't and then it is crystal clear; it is, or was to me, a jolt that makes you go "WTF?" Not that TSS is in the same league as this movie, but most of us train ourselves to see the ending or at least take an educated guess at it. Nobody guessed this ending.

I cannot comprehend how a then 18-year-old Page managed to headlock this character without showing the cracks of an acting coach standing beside her spoon feeding her dialog or emotional critique.

Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page are absolutely outphucingstanding. I'm not sure about the Sandra Oh hype, her blip was memorable, but I've had hiccups that lasted longer than her part.

It's a movie that stays with you longer than you want it to. After I returned it, I kept opening my DVD player just to make sure it wasn't in there.

I think maybe one other person here saw Hard Candy. Actually, I thought the girl became sadistic. But it was an unexpected take on pedaphilia.....which I think is the new hot topic for films......or the last frontier for acceptable discrimination. Patrick Wilson has an everyman quality. Watch him in Little Children.

bart - you're in my thoughts.

My father has taken a turn for the better but is still only being given a 10% chance of making it out of this. He's been in SCVICU since 1/4/07.

He wasn't a great father, or a good father, but he is my father. I adored him as a child, falling into those sleepy daydreams of dancing together at my wedding, laughing together until milk shot out or our noses, teaching me to drive and hammering my first date until he swore to have me home a half hour earlier than I had to be. It never came to fruition, the only thing I saw were drunken hazes, swift backhands and constant reminders that I was identical to my mother. It doesn't make me love him less but it does make me recognize that he is just a man, whether mean or kind, influential or absent, he is just a man. I wish there were more good things to remember but I'll hold on to what I have and, if necessary, will grieve him as only I can do. I honestly believe nobody can love, dislike or grieve him like I can, not even my siblings. It is what it is.



I don't think she was sadistic, just brutal to a beast. And I think there have been many, many movies about pedophilia (Anjelica Huston's Bastard Out of Carolina being one of the best) and it isn't an untapped frontier, even Kill Bill touched on it as best it could.

I don't think she was sadistic, just brutal to a beast. And I think there have been many, many movies about pedophilia (Anjelica Huston's Bastard Out of Carolina being one of the best) and it isn't an untapped frontier, even Kill Bill touched on it as best it could.

marj - I'll re-watch Paige before Bond. Honestly, I'm not looking forward to either but hey, I came back to Third Eye so you just never know what's going to happen, do you?

Nope, I guess you don't.

Bart - My thoughts are with you as well.