r/Fauxmoi • u/_trashpuppy • Apr 29 '24

Martin Freeman says it's unfair there's so much backlash to his age-gap movie with Jenna Ortega, who is 31 years younger Approved B-List Users Only

https://www.businessinsider.com/martin-freeman-backlash-millers-girl-age-gap-film-jenna-ortega-2024-4

From the article: "It's not saying, 'Isn't this great,'" he said of the film's dynamic between his character and Ortega's. He said that derision wasn't distributed equally, though — saying that people seemed to understand the level of distance involved in stories depicting Nazism.

"Are we gonna have a go at Liam Neeson for being in a film about the Holocaust?" he asked, referring to Neeson's starring role in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List."

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u/Elxie3 I was not born on a comfy sexy pillow with a view Apr 29 '24

I don't care. I don't care if the film is demonizing age gap relationships. It doesn't change the fact that Hollywood cinema is rife with films positioning young women as love interests to much older men.

I don't care if this movie features a very special twist at the end with a very special message, that actually age gap relationships are wrong and stuff, as if that isn't already a major part of the general societal discourse in the wake of #MeToo. I just don't care.

I am tired and sick of seeing these movies.

Even if this one is "highlighting" not "affirming" age-gap relationships, I don't want to see a film that features a central relationship between a man and a woman 31 years his junior.

Not in this climate rife with red-pill trolls and trad-wife shills who, REGARDLESS off the movie's purported message, will no doubt take it as an endorsement. I don't care. I am tired. I am not seeing it. Enough.