Monster Scholar

And then there she was Like double cherry pie Yeah there she was Like disco superfly I smell sex and candy here… Mama this surely is a dream —Sex and Candy “Playtime is over. It’s time to wake up.” —Hayley, Hard Candy While it may be taboo for a grown man to be sexual attracted to a teenager, films like Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, express the forbidden fantasy of having sex with an underage girl. Nabokov’s novel tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle aged writer who becomes sexually obsessed with Dolores Haze or “Lolita” the twelve year old girlchild of his impromptu fiancé. Along with the media’s sexualization of teenage girls, films like Lolita blur the line between fantasy and reality, between innocent love affair and sexual abuse. This is the kind of sexual dynamic at play as we watch fourteen year old Hayley played by Ellen Page and thirty something photographer Jeff get to know each other online in the opening scene of Hard Candy . Usi...