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I recently saw the movie "Hard Candy" on Showtime. It's about this photographer (Jeff) who meets a 14-year-old girl (Hayley) online. He wants to take pictures of her, so he meets her at a coffee shop. She invites herself over his house, then drugs him and ties him up. She thinks h's a pedophile who murdered a recently-missing girl, but he denies it.
She tortures him, first making him believe she'd castrated him (which she didn't), then binding him and standing him up on a chair with a noose around his neck. She tells him if he kills himself, she'll get rid of all the evidence against him (a photo of the missing girl and a planted suicide note); otherwise she'll kill him and leave the evidence.
He escapes, and goes after her with a knife, presumably for revenge. He follows her up to the roof, when she tells him she'd called his long-lost love to come to the house. She says the offer still stands: hang himself off the roof, and she'll clear away any incriminating evidence. He denies doing anything wrong still, but knows that either way he's going to prison, so he kills himself. Then she adds a clause to her deal: "Or not".
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Now, here's my question: Was Jeff guilty or innocent? Obviously, he'd deny everything usually, but when you're threatened with castration and still deny it, then you think you've been castrated and STILL deny it, then are about to kill yourself and STILL deny it, I tend to think you're innocent. At the same time, there's a disturbing scene where Jeff sort of snaps as he's looking for Hayley. Of course, Hayley comes off as a psychopath, so I don't know.
Can anyone help clear this up?
Thanks.
-IMP ;) :)
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