I was watching Big today (you know Big: kid wishes to be big and he turns into Tom Hanks when it comes true) and something occurred to me. This fourteen year-old kid just has his body changed, right? He's still only fourteen, he mind is still that of a child (which is how he succeeds at his job) and he certainly doesn't have the life experience of anyone over fourteen. I'll forgo the whole fact that he was able to be promoted to such a high position, let alone even getting a job without any form of identification. But Elizabeth Perkins totally sexes him up. Maybe one of the most memorable scenes in the movie. He wants to keep the lights on so he can see her boobs when he touches them. However, he only looks older. So..... pedophilia or just statutory rape? Tell me I'm wrong. I want to be wrong, but looking older does not make what they did legal. So it has to be one of those two right? My guess is statutory rape since, that we know of, she's not attracted to children, just didn't know she was having sex with one. But ignorance of the law is no excuse. That's what Judge Judy taught me.
I would say where she doesn't know he's a kid AND he has the body of an adult (no way outside of the fantasy elements of the film that that guy could be under 18) that she's guilty of neither, just of being attracted to men who seem to have Peter Pan Syndrome at best mental retardation at worst, and of bad taste for hooking up with Tom Hanks no matter what age he is.
ReplyDeleteHe may have to body of an adult but he's not one. That's my point. Someone looking old enough doesn't make it right. You sell alcohol to a kid just cuz they look old enough, but they're not, you think you can't get in trouble? I just hope his mother never finds out and presses charges.
ReplyDeleteSo you're saying we should card our dates?
ReplyDeleteI think that may be for the best. Look how much trouble Roman Polanski and R Kelly could have saved had they done that.
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