Claire Cohen reviews the debate around NoHardFeelings, which raises questions around consent and grooming with the dynamic between Jennifer Lawrence’s Maddie and Andrew Barth Feldman’s Percy.
If the phrase “this one time, at band camp” means something to you, then, like me, you probably grew up in theera. Back then, in 1999, nothing about the film seemed seriously problematic. An outrageous comedy about a group of horny students? Teenage me was hooked.
In hindsight, a movie about a group of boys desperate to lose their virginities by prom night or be destined to start college life as “losers”—and prepared to do anything they can in the pursuit of sex, including filming women in secret and showing their buddies the footage—isn’t great.
Of course, the temptation is to say that this film would never be made the other way around; the optics of a man in his 30s trying as many pushy tactics as he can think of to get into the underwear of a teenage girl would not be good. But while there’s a definite Hollywood precedent for those sorts of films, I’m not sure that the way to level the playing field is to flip the script gender-wise.
In this post #MeToo era, with conversations around consent being had everywhere from high schools to football clubs, are we really still pressuring young people to pop their cherry or risk being seen as uncool? Not to mention the unaddressed issue of Maddie trying to have sex with Percy in exchange for a car.
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