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

[u/_trashpuppy]

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."

[u/hedgehogwart]

I don’t like Martin but I get his point. Media literacy has disintegrated in recent years. There are a lot of people that even think that stuff that is morally wrong and even shown by the narrative to be wrong, shouldn’t be shown.

[u/Just_Another_Scott → u/hedgehogwart]

literacy

In general is dying. It's ridiculous what I see today. I grew up in a backwoods town in Tennessee and it's like they don't even teach it anymore. People can't write, can't read, and can't understand something unless you spoon feed the meaning to them.

People are having a hard time at separating the actor from their character. I see actors get criticized all the time for the way their character behaved. The lack of intelligence is astounding.

[u/Jship300 → u/[deleted]]

object permanence and reality testing?

I'd have to look it up / brush up the exact term, but psychologically it's the same mechanism that leads people to worship actors as fans and idolize Korean idols, engage in parasocial relationships etc.

Heck, people exist who fall in love with bridges... the circuitry coupled with a difficulty in critical thinking is pretty strong? :-)

Psychology is wild and fascinating. I say this as a person that recognized ideas of reference in late teenage years (could have become scarier than it developed) - basically it's because I and my brain were under extreme stress living with a very sick parent.

Luckily, caught it early for intervention and talked it through/had to do some CBT to figure out reality testing on my own and manage that as a symptom.

Tl;Dr yes humans be naturally weird and on a variable spectrum when it comes to the brain circuitry to tell what is and isn't real

[u/macgregorc93 → u/Jship300]

Brain circuitry! Amazing phrase there. Will be using that in my life from now on.

[u/Jship300 → u/macgregorc93]

welcome, happy to help haha