# Hard Candy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-candy/354908>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 1, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-candy/354908 "2006-05-01T02:44:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-candy/354908/1 "2006-05-01T02:44:33Z")

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Anyone seen this yet? I caught it over the weekend and didn’t realize how intense the whole experience was 'til the credits rolled and I finally relaxed. Definitely an above average thriller, and clever, too, since I walked right into the writer-director’s trap when I found myself sympathizing with the photographer and thinking the girl was crazy/overreacting. Who else was in the theatre when you saw it? I saw a few adult men there together-- some actually walked out, while the rest just left highly disturbed.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hard-candy/354908/2 "2006-05-01T03:46:05Z")

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I thought it was fairly well done, though I could have done without some of the jerky camera work. There were a few things about the film which didn’t quite work for me.

I could tell the castration scene was a fake from almost the get go.

Halley, or whatever her name was, left a _lot_ of prints in the place after she cleaned up. Not to mention the whole eyewitness bit. I think I would have preferred a more ambiguous ending where you weren’t sure if he was a pedophile or not. Just an absolute mindfuck of a film where you have no idea if the girl’s nuts, the guy’s a skeeve or what.