One would think I've learned by now not to watch these movies before going to bed, especially the foreign ones. This one is just terrible. Supposedly it's about Anais, a twelve year old girl who is overweight. What it's really about it Anais's fifteen year old sister, Elena (who is thin and pretty), and her sexual awakening and it's really extreme consequences. It includes a vomit scene and another thing to add to my list of things I just don't need to see on film--the application of a condom. Really. I can use my imagination. Thanks.
The whole film is problematic. The basic premise is that an Italian college student is trying his damnedest to take Elena's virginity with all sorts of "it doesn't count if we do this," "I love you, won't you show that you love me," various promises, and even a proposal. Elena is excited and scared to lose her virginity but wants to do so with someone she loves whereas Anais is an incredibly grim and pessimistic twelve year old who asserts she'd rather the guy not love her and vice versa because, once it's over, any man most certainly won't love her. Add a couple of supposedly over-protective but really mostly absent and vacant parents, and you've got the story.
But what is most outrageously problematic is the ending. It's terrible and awful and just disgusting really. Not a fan of this one at all, not one bit. No no no.
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