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Review: If you fool yourself that the grindhouse "masterpiece" "I Spit on Your Grave" is a feminist consciousness raising film, then "Hard Candy" will also fill you with joy. While certainly far better made and acted than the former, it also professes to be an actually good film and a statement. While running into a hopeless perv, the Ellen Page character instead of turning him in, proceeds to torture him to death (heartwarming, right?). When she utters the phrase "the Geneva convention doesn't apply here" we know we are in for a roller coaster ride of an exploitation movie that has aspirations that are beyond it. The far better made (and intellectually superior but unfortunately not on dvd yet) "Art for Teachers of Children" explores this same disturbing issue in a far more contemplative and realistic sense without in any way being on the side of the perpetrator.
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