acidrainbath
Yeah, it's a ridiculous story, but there's so much truth to it. Y'all are seeing it from the wrong angle.This story is not about a boy named Justin. It's about a hysterical, self- righteous, ultra-conservative wife/mother who combines the worst aspects of the right and the left in one personality. She has the ultra-conservative values with the flavor of the year (porn) in total Reefer Madness mode. This could've been about anything really, video games, rock music, TV, comic books, drugs, hipsterism, black metal, gambling, but it happens to be about porn this time. So she's all conservative without the "I'll pray for you" or "I'll ask Jesus for guidance" because in that space we have all the leftist crap, self-righteous indignation, moral superiority, double-standards, compartmentalization... with a tablespoon of 3rd wave feminism, or maybe just a pinch. This is a real problem. These people exist. I say that because I'm married to one. Yes, pornography has destroyed my life. Just like Justin, I used to watch pornography. Just like Justin, I watched some soft-core crap. Just like him, I watched it fully clothed and had a drink (1 single beer, once a week. This boy's caffeine addiction is a whole other thing).When my wife found out, she reacted the same as Diane (the mom). There's a scene where Diane tells her husband about it and he just says "okay, good night." The problem is that Diane lives in an alternate reality. She throws a fit and everyone does whatever she wants. She escalates this thing from "he watches porn" into "he's addicted to porn." She escalates it from a small private matter to one that needs therapy, an intervention, a Facebook group, calling Doctor Phil, national awareness campaign, Mothers-Against-Porn, and all the stuff that brings the most extreme leftists and rightists together in harmony.I come from a fairly conservative family. The way such things were dealt with was denial, small talk, church, more church, and pray that it goes away. Real liberal families ignore it, also give a quick safe-sex talk, or say it's fine, normal, healthy, whatever.But this woman is the product of two ideologically opposed cultures. The extreme left and the extreme right.The woman makes a big deal of this, involving her husband, her coworker, school councilor, the small brother, Starbucks employees, her credit card company, the gardener and anyone who follows her on Facebook. The world is a messed up place. This film is not a moralizing after-school special. This is a statement about the messed up state of the country. The younger brother plays GTA for God's sake. He's like 11 years old. The parents have no money. Justin needs to swim to get an education. The younger brother has no hope in athletics or intelligence (he burned a porn CD, wrote the label "virgin vaginas" and left it next to the computer. Too late for this one). The parents can't even afford a vacation. The husband is so scared of his wife that he tells her he's a lucky man, that he would never look at any porn or fantasize about anyone else. He lives in constant fear of his wife who drove her own son to suicide. Nopes, not exaggerating, this really happened.The parents pressure their kid into athletics and scold him for finishing 3rd in a national competition. The boy's girlfriend is a bible-thumper and she's retreating to religion. A young girl in school is making child pornography, perhaps to make ends meet? Still not making this up. No one in this film can spell. No one. The education system has completely collapsed, so webcam stuff and swimming are the only avenues left.Justin has a serious caffeine addiction. His parents can't afford to go on a vacation to a bed and breakfast. In this bleak country Justin finds solace in soft, soft, soft porn. Basically girls showing their arms, ankles, bellies. And the mom loses it. She gets everyone on her side, even getting the indifferent dad to threaten his son with physical abuse in public. (He was going to punch him in the head. Not threatened, he actually was going to do it). The mother used the dad as her trained attack hound and he ignored his own, STATED ideas about the thing to follow orders from his master.They way the mom behaved is exactly the way my own wife behaved. I did not hide the porn, I really didn't think she would behave like that. Her brother and dad go to a strip club with the guys, maybe twice a year, but she brushes that off as "them just blowing off steam." I don't go because I don't really like them much and I'm not into strip clubs. But my watching of an hour of porn, while building a guitar and having a single beer is "an addiction." "God knows what else goes down there." It's a workshop with tools and sawdust. What do you think happens?Anyway, my wife did the same stuff, involve everyone, marriage councilor, Facebook groups, tell her family, intervention. She's 27, so there's no jealousy excuse. But if I made the movie you'd all say that it's bull. This movie, as ridiculous as it sounds, is probably based on a true story with some tiny alterations. So yeah, I had to watch this film in my workshop because heaven forgive if her majesty walked in and saw this thing, seeing herself in the mirror/on the screen.It's all the liberal crap we're all used to + the conservative crap I'm used to without any of the Jesus saving me from all this part.
liamforeman
So my journey to writing this review has been long. Several months ago I walked in on my 14 y/o son and his best friend jerking off to porn. AWKWARD. I never limited my son's media access, we have cable, internet, and I figured if he wants to watch porn he'll find a way since he's the only one in the house who knows how to work that magic remote control, unlike me.So I started doing my Dad investigation on what is proper control and parenting wrt internet porn. In my teens it was Cinemax and HBO after 2am and my friends and I would stay up late to watch. I'm not a prude. Then I come across this flick.What garbage. If this is supposed to help parents with horny teenage boys, then it is a major fail.The whole writing is a mess. First of all you have your typical normal horny kid who discovers chat rooms and sites on the net. He watches them religiously in his bedroom, WITH THE DOOR OPEN. So one night Mom walks past his door, sees the Red Bull and she KNOWS what that means, and runs to her husband, wakes him up, and freaks out that he's looking at naked women on the net. She cries "Is that normal?". Oh god. I'm already losing my focus on this movie, because it is so out of normal human behavior.Then we begin the descent into the world of teenage porn addiction, or something like that. The boy is an all-state swimmer and right before a race, just to drive home the severity of his porn addiction, he's watching porn on his girlfriend's Iphone. I was a swimmer, and BELIEVE me, when I was a few minutes from getting up on the blocks in a tiny speedo in front of everyone, porn was the last thing on my mind. So unrealistic.Also, there are only two types of young women in this film: The Madonna and the Whore. No in between. No wonder this kid was struggling.This is just a terrible movie, and no parent should watch this for help. I loved Kelly Lynch doing a PSA at the end, this was the actress I fapped to as a 14 y/o in Blue Velvet who was naked the entire time.The message boards on this flick are hilarious. Speaking as a normal guy who looked at his fair share of naked women and men as a teen, porn is not BAD. I'd rather my kid fap four times a day, then become sexually active and get someone pregnant. He's now fifteen, and the number one rule of the house is: DO NOT GET A GIRL PREGNANT. It's the only rule, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm still stressing good grades and excellence in all other areas.Do not watch this as a concerned parent. It's only good for a RW chicken-little sky-is-falling dramatica. It could be humorous, except it wasn't the intention.
