Its not good. It is very very long and in very questionable taste. What it is is basically a film about a lowlife police officer who tries to solicit sex from a minor (she's literally fifteen) and ends up almost killing her mentally challenged (i don't know if that is actually the case but it certainly is how the film makes it look) who by the way is implied that he is "mentally challenged" because once he saw his mom having sex. If it sounds stupid that is because it is. Very much so. I will get into the things that bother me. I thought it was weird how the film downplays how the main character is having an affair with a 15 year old girl. I thought that the "reveal" that this 15 year old girl who for no reason whatsoever falls in love with this deadbeat 40 year old cop is actually his ex girlfriend daughter quite hard to swallow. I dont like how the film ridicules her brother by making him seem unreasonable and stupid and i think it comes of as very ableist. I think is very weird how her grandfather literally stalks her and is very obviously turned on by her and by the end of the film they just brush it off as "he wanted to tattoo her and nothing more". Not only that but they even make him seem kind of like the moral compass of the film. I hated the cliched and misoginistic writing of her mother. It is very odd that the film got away with making her the root of all the problems in everyone's life when all that she really did was have sex after she was made widow. Like, what did she do that was so condemnable? And how is that worse than being a police officer who abuses power, harasses sex workers, is directly responsable for one person dying (the jimi hendrix man) and indirectly responsable for one person attempting suicide ? How is that more condemnable than a grandfather who has a stroke after seeing his granddaughter taking a shower because he was so excited? Other than that some of the scenes were very cringy and in bad taste. Such as the scene where her brother tries to kill himself or the one where he hops in joy at his grandfathers funeral.
Review of An Adolescent
