2023 awards contender. The movie is based (loosely inspired) on a real life incident of 36 year old Mary Kay Letourneau who seduced a 12 year old Vili Fualaau in 1996, was imprisoned for child rape, had children with the boy and married him. The film explores their life through an actress who is playing Mary in a yet to be shot film and whose questions to the couple throw up some disturbing areas they had never addressed.
The scene where the now-grown husband asks his much older wife (Julianne Moore- brilliant) if perhaps he was too young to have made those decisions at 12 after a conversation with the actress (Natalie Portman),begets the reply from the offended wife - 'who seduced me? who was the boss?' Apparently the question 'who was the boss?' was asked by the 36 year old of the 12 year old putting the entire responsibility on the 12 year old.
Interesting.
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