Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.Two teenage girls encounter an Internet child predator.
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John K. Frazier
- Bill Herman
- (as John Frazier)
Josh Samson
- News Reporter
- (as Josh Friehling)
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- Writer
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- TriviaIn order to be fully aware of their participation in the movie and graphic content, the parents of the young cast were asked to be on set during shooting.
- GoofsAfter Megan arranges the date with Josh, she gets on a video chat with Amy. Just before Amy's video feed pops up, Michael Goi can be heard calling, "Action!"
- Quotes
Bill Herman: Well, I'll figure something special to get you for your birthday.
Amy Herman: Like, maybe, a video camera?
Bill Herman: [making balance-scale motions with his hands] Hmm, mortgage payment, video camera. What should I do?
Amy Herman: [giggles and taps his arm] It doesn't cost that much, jerk!
Bill Herman: Louise, your daughter just called me a jerk.
Louise Herman: She's right, you know?
Bill Herman: Women, always ganging up on defenseless men.
[Amy giggles and hugs him]
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Oh. Dear.
Where on EARTH do you start.
First, I'm not an apologist for abuse - I'm a therapist who works, every day, with abuse and trauma. So I really GET an attempt to explore this issue - and warn - from the victim's point of view.
And, to be fair, filming this in 8 days? Remarkable.
But...
I'm left with all kinds of icky feelings. True, Megan is pretty unbearable. She's become a bit slutty, offering what she CAN offer to boys because she can - because it doesn't matter that much (enough) to her, and that first harrowing trivial hour makes it clear what made her life, her body, less important to her than it should have been.
And Amy? Well, she's annoying, and a bit too squeaky clean, but this is annoyingly tangled up with her own self image, when in fact it's Megan's self image that is really more impaired.
The artifice of the whole film being webcam, 'phone and video is clever. Clever as in cheap, and amateurish, which works.
But that last 22 minutes. Well. Sadly, it's better shot than the previous hour, it's boring in places, (digging is NOT good cinema), and, all in all, it left me, (leaves me), feeling hollow, and empty.
There is a claim, at the start of the film, that this is based on a true story, but I've looked, hard, and can't find any proof.
There's a terribly upsetting "Every day 2000 parents say..." about abduction. Gleaned from the Klass site. But on the very next line on the Klass site, this number is diminished, and also made less clear (ie. NOT juvenile).
I don't know. I don't want to damn this film, and I don't want to pretend abuse isn't a terrible thing. It's just that my sense is, somewhere, the director got lost, and the producers didn't say so.
I admire that this is being done - ie an attempt to raise the issue. AND that the film was clearly made on a shoestring, in 8 days. But 22 year old actresses just don't (can't) look 13, and simply because abused girls don't LOOK like they have any depth doesn't mean they don't HAVE any depth.
This isn't a complete damning of this film. 'Enjoy' would be wrong, but I watched it, at least. It's just - I don't know... It could have been so much better, and it could STILL have been filmed in 8 days.
First, I'm not an apologist for abuse - I'm a therapist who works, every day, with abuse and trauma. So I really GET an attempt to explore this issue - and warn - from the victim's point of view.
And, to be fair, filming this in 8 days? Remarkable.
But...
I'm left with all kinds of icky feelings. True, Megan is pretty unbearable. She's become a bit slutty, offering what she CAN offer to boys because she can - because it doesn't matter that much (enough) to her, and that first harrowing trivial hour makes it clear what made her life, her body, less important to her than it should have been.
And Amy? Well, she's annoying, and a bit too squeaky clean, but this is annoyingly tangled up with her own self image, when in fact it's Megan's self image that is really more impaired.
The artifice of the whole film being webcam, 'phone and video is clever. Clever as in cheap, and amateurish, which works.
But that last 22 minutes. Well. Sadly, it's better shot than the previous hour, it's boring in places, (digging is NOT good cinema), and, all in all, it left me, (leaves me), feeling hollow, and empty.
There is a claim, at the start of the film, that this is based on a true story, but I've looked, hard, and can't find any proof.
There's a terribly upsetting "Every day 2000 parents say..." about abduction. Gleaned from the Klass site. But on the very next line on the Klass site, this number is diminished, and also made less clear (ie. NOT juvenile).
I don't know. I don't want to damn this film, and I don't want to pretend abuse isn't a terrible thing. It's just that my sense is, somewhere, the director got lost, and the producers didn't say so.
I admire that this is being done - ie an attempt to raise the issue. AND that the film was clearly made on a shoestring, in 8 days. But 22 year old actresses just don't (can't) look 13, and simply because abused girls don't LOOK like they have any depth doesn't mean they don't HAVE any depth.
This isn't a complete damning of this film. 'Enjoy' would be wrong, but I watched it, at least. It's just - I don't know... It could have been so much better, and it could STILL have been filmed in 8 days.
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