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re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way

Posted by:	AlanScott 06:08 pm EST 11/21/14
In reply to:	The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - Greg_M 05:42 pm EST 11/21/14

I agree that's what the song is about, but when you have a man of 50 or 60 or 70 singing the song while looking at a bunch of teenage girls, as in the movie, it's easy to be a little creeped out by it, even if you know what the song is intended to be.

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re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way

Posted by:	LegitOnce 07:56 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	re: The song is only creepy if you choose to see it that way - AlanScott 06:08 pm EST 11/21/14

Actually (I just checked) it doesn't play out quite that way. Honoré looks at the young girls (Gigi among them) and says "... and there is the future. Someday each and every one of them will be either married or unmarried. How adorable they are!" He glances at a very young girl, about 8 or 9, with an avuncular grin, and launches into the song, all of it directed to the camera. He doesn't leer, he doesn't sigh, he doesn't do anything but enjoy the idea that there will eventually be a new crop of young, beautiful women to enjoy. His joy is in anticipation. Sadly, Anglo-Saxon society (it's even worse in Great Britain) has become infinitely oversensitized to the imminent danger of child molestation, to the point that it is practically impossible to form a friendly relationship with a person from a different generation. Virtually all of these friendships are completely innocent and in fact healthy for the participants on both sides of the generational divide. Now, unfortunately, this sort of friendship is immediately defined as "creepy," which, because it makes the beholder uncomfortable, must necessarily be further defined as illegal. I had lots of adult friends when I was a child, especially as a preteen, and I think those relationships were very valuable. Such a thing would be almost impossible today, because dirty-minded society insists on being "creeped out."

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