CA 4 Hard Candy
Hard Candy is a movie about a girl, called Hayley, who is about 14 years old. She gets in
touch with a mature man online, and they chat. After some conversations they decide to
meet in real life, and he takes her back to his place, where the story begins to unfold. She
turns out to search for pedophiles and punish them, and she mentally and physically tortures
the man. Eventually she gets him so far to kill himself, and she tells him that she has done
this before.
I had seen it in class, because the teacher wanted to show the difference between the play
and the movie, even though I had not seen the play because I was in Australia at the time.
But I had heard some good stories about it so I didn’t dislike the fact that we were going to
watch it.
This movie is a thriller, and it is produced by Michael Caldwell, David Higgins, Richard Hutton
and Jody Patton. Hayley is played by Ellen Page, and Jeff is played by Patrick Wilson. The
movie was premiered in 2005. The film was shot in eighteen and a half days, largely in
sequence, and mostly on a soundstage, which is very short for a film this long.
In the beginning of the movie I did not know what to expect. When I saw the chat
conversation I thought to myself ‘’Where in god’s name is this going?’’ not knowing what
would happen.
When they decided to meet I thought ‘’How stupid is that girl? Doesn’t she know anything
about the internet and pedophiles?’’ and her ignorance was actually irritating me quite
badly, because I knew what was going to happen if she went with him.
When she actually went home with him I had the urge to punish her for her stupidity,
because how stupid would she have to be when she actually went home with him, seen to
all the horrible things he could do to her, and it kind of furiated me.
As things went on I could only watch how the story would end, thinking there was no way it
would end well for Hayley, I just sat there, in silence. But when the turning point arrived I
was shocked to find out that she was never as vulnerable as she seemed to be, and that my
anger on her being so ignorant was pointless, because she had tied up Jeff, and could do
anything she wanted.
As the movie went on I found out what kind of a devil she really was, the things she says she
would do are horrible, and I could only imagine how Jeff could have felt, it made me feel like
there was no possible way that Jeff would come out of this alive, or atleast in one piece. But
when she was going to cut his testicles off she went too far, I had the urge to stop her,
because I could only imagine how it would be without testicles, as many other guys thought.
Atthe end of the movie, when she had Jeff kill himself I still had some hope it would be okay
with Jeff, but I knew, in the back of my mind it would not end well for him. This movie made
me realise that the cutest little angel, could be a devil on the inside.