Reel Sex: Underaged Sexual Taboo in ‘Kick-Ass’ and ‘Sucker Punch’
“Last year’s bummer of a superhero film Kick-Ass featured a most precariously sensual character, Hit-Girl (Chloe Moretz). Hit-Girl is the ultimate male fantasy; she’s tough, rough, compact-size, and undeniably insane. It is almost difficult to not find her attractive when she’s bashing in bad guys’ faces and helping guide Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson, yum o’clock) on his own wayward hero’s journey. She is also a child trained by her father to kill without remorse. Despite her adult like mannerisms and actions, she is nevertheless a woman stuck in a child’s body. And feeling any sort of sexual pull to her is both taboo and undeniable, for some. Along the same lines of questionable sensuality are the ladies of Sucker Punch, a mostly polarizing film about girls so physically oppressed by men they must regress to the farthest corners of their minds. Sounds simple enough, but these are also young women whose fantasies put them in a strictly adult world. Rather than envisioning themselves fighting their harassers in sensible clothing, they are highly stylized and sexualized by dressing like Porcelain dolls. Who kick ass. I see no problem here as I support anything to do with sexy women kissing and killing with the utmost abandon, but I’m just a humble servant to all that is hot.”
- Gwen Reyes
- October 5 2011 | Notes 3 - Read More →
