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The Idea of You (2024)
Hypocrisy as an idea
This film, as well as the reaction to it, is a wonderful example of modern hypocrisy:
The story is about an adult woman who is attracted to a young guy, 16 years younger than her, young enough to be her son, whom she sees at his boys band concert, and from people reactions starts from the movie trailer and beyond, we get praise and stories that this is the destruction of the stigma about the happiness of a woman at 40, that she can remain attractive at any age to any man, that happiness is available to anyone and it's not for us to judge someone else's love.
But if this were a story about a man who, at the age of 40, attracted to a girl from a girls band, and the girl is 16 years younger than him, we would get stories about a disgusting creep who finds no other way to overcome his midlife crisis than preadatory pursue a girl, young enough to be his daughter.