From the Hollywood Reporter :. It was considered uncool at the time to have moral objections to the film, but I always found the movie distasteful. Open and thoughtful, Engelhardt unspools a life story that took root in a strict German immigrant household and blossomed into a Zelig-esque series of adventures as she attempted to break into modeling: partying with Iman, jet-setting with Adnan Khashoggi. This is the international arms dealer who was in the news all the time a generation ago.
In the meantime, attitudes towards men who pursue underage girls continue to be frustratingly lax on the whole. Last year, year-old James Franco tried and failed to hook up with a year-old Scottish girl via Instagram. After a month of denial, he fessed up, joked about it , and more or less emerged unscathed with his career intact. In her book The Lolita Effect, M.
And now this sophisticated young miss has decided to educate her socially backward friend, Claire, in the fine arts of sexual seduction. So the early scenes of this winsome piece play mostly as comedy, with Emmy painstakingly instructing her plain-jane friend in how to pass herself off as a brainy college girl at Harvard, no less who knows her way around. Crassly confident of his deception, Mark is ready to pounce on this hot babe he met last week at a club, and the girl has lined up a good-to-go friend for Robert. Without immediately spelling out the whys and wherefores, she makes it clear that these cute guys are predators, and these innocent girls are every bit as manipulative as the guys.
A word perverted old men use to describe underage girls they want to have sex with. They're called 'jailbait' because if the man has sex with her usually in the form of rape , and anyone finds out they will be put away. Wow, look at the girl with the pigtails and braces on; I bet she'll get in my van with me. Then when I get charged with first degree rape I can claim she was jailbaiting me and that I'm the innocent victim here. Jail bait unknown.