Didn’t realise it had added as a book. It is actually a book as well, but it was the film I saw. Still. It was so rubbish it doesn’t deserver correct categorisation.

It was the dynamic, the roles they fulfilled, and the way they were simply accepted as normal by the characters in the film.

From what I remember, Danes’s friends in this film were focused purely on Martin’s financial success, what a “catch” he was, an older, rich man, and how to “bag him”. No one seemed overly concerned about how she felt about him, or him about her. This really made my stomach turn – what a horrendous way to portray women, as money-grabbing materialists more interested in a bank balance than a genuine relationship. Also, are there really women out there who have so little faith in themselves and their ability to support themselves that they’d trade genuine feelings for financial security and gifts? Isn’t that pretty much prostitution? And are there really men out there who’d take advantage of this in the way Martin’s character did, treating her as a toy? She was pathetic, and he was a bastard. And these character traits were presented as normal. Ugh.

And another thing, I know that we’re meant to go “age ain’t nothin’ but a number, baby”, and treat age-gap relationships like this the same as any other, and I know there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with them but I’m sorry, if I started going out with someone white-haired and wrinkly and old enough to be my dad then I’m pretty damn sure that my friends would have something to say about it, irregardless of how we felt about each other. Not necessarily disparaging things, but it would… merit comment.

Ugh, ugh, ugh. I don’t want to think about this film any more.

Which ones? Little Shop of Horrors was good but…