Elliot Page Brought the Brutal Reality of True Crime to Life in This Movie
True crime has always been perversely enticing. Today, it has a considerable fan base, with a steady stream of programs and documentaries, and YouTubers and podcasters making careers out of retelling tales of horrible crimes that once took place.
The details of this incident are truly horrific, and so startling that it gave America something of a wake-up call when it came to the seriousness of child abuse, and hive mentality. It should be obvious from this very conservative summary of the ordeal that any visual media inspired by it would never be intended as entertainment in the traditional sense.
Elliot Page Elevates an Average Movie Elliot Page was already proving himself an incredibly sensitive and versatile actor when his career really started to take off in the mid-2000s. 2005’s Hard Candy saw him take on the darkly fascinating role of a teenage vigilante who targets a pedophile and subjects him to an ordeal of physical and mental torment.
Page told ComingSoon.net that he “attached [his] heart to it and dove into it,” and it truly shows in his performance. Where a more simplistic movie could simply paint its victim as the perfect child to emphasize the cruelty of their abuse, Page finds a real person among all the tabloid hyperbole and explores the nature of a young girl desperate to maintain some level of security and safekeeping for a sibling who is relegated to a helpless onlooker role in the torment.
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