Showing posts with label unrequited love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unrequited love. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2014

SARA (1997): A Polish Teen's Unrequited Love for Older Man


Here's the plot summary posted on IMDb for Sara (1997):
The forty-something Leon [Boguslaw Linda] who used to be with special forces is now an alcoholic after his wife left him. He gets a call to meet a mobster who's looking for a bodyguard. When he arrives the mobster refuses to hire him because he can tell he's an alcoholic, but when he saves his life a few minutes later, the gangster is very appreciative and gives Leon the job. 
He's not hired to protect the gangster, but the gangster's 16-year-old daughter, Sara [Agnieszka Wlodarczyk]. At first she is annoyed by him and is rebellious and won't cooperate with him, but when he saves her life and takes a bullet for her, she falls in love with him. She makes advances towards him telling him she wants him to be her man. 
Naturally, he refuses her at first because he knows her father would kill him. Eventually he gives in and they become secret lovers. They're in love but how long can they continue their relationship before her father finds out? And what will he do when he finds out?

In The Allure of Nymphets, I wrote about what makes a nympholept attractive to nymphets. This Polish film is another example of one of the ways in which a(n) (older) man can increase a teen's attraction, which is by resisting her initial advances. For example, 40-year-old Leon repeatedly rejected 16-year-old Sara's advances until she literally begged him to take her: 
"Please. I'll never do anything stupid. I'll only listen to you [...] I love you. I'll be with you forever. I'll have your children"

Leon even tried to dissuade Sara by pointing out his grey hair, but after Sarah tried to rub her fingers through Leon's grey, she asked:
"Why can't a 40-year-old man love a 16-year-old girl?"
Leon must not have read Steele's Date Young Women For Men Over 35, where Steele writes that young women are attracted to gray hair. 

Interestingly, Leon's father responded to Sara's question with a question of his own:
"And why can't a man in his 60s love a 12-year-old girl?"

Ultimately, Leon couldn't resist the allure of a nymphet, and after scolding Sara for skipping school, he would take her back to his place for age-gap sex. 

In contrast, Sara's other bodyguard was too needy, and unsurprisingly, Sara rejected his advances. He confessed:
"I know everything about you. I know how tall you are, how much you weigh, what your shoe size is, and your bra [size] [...] I even know when you have your period.
Lastly, Agnieszka Wlodarczyk was 16 when Sara was filmed. The age of consent in Poland is 15; however, Agnieszka's multiple nude scenes were (literally, but not figuratively) non-sexual. 




Friday, September 13, 2013

THE ADOLESCENT (1979): A Fearless French Nymphet's Unrequited Love


Here's JHailey's IMDb plot summary for The Adolescent (1979) [French: L'adolescente]:

The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's [...] Jewish doctor. She's despondent when he treats her as if she were a child [...]

Like is mentioned in the plot summary, in The Adolescent (1979), after 13-year-old Marie and her parents visit her grandmother in rural France, she falls in love with Alexander, the town's 30-year-old physician, but despite the temptation, Marie's love is unrequited.

13-year-old Marie: "I love you."
30-year-old Alexander: "You're just a little girl."
Marie: "I'm grown up! You're scared. I'm not scared."


The Adolescent (1979) is similar to Beau-père (1981), but in Beau-père, Rémi (Patrick Dewaere), a 30-year-old pianist, has an affair with Marion (Ariel Besse), his 14-year-old orphaned stepdaughter after she pleads and convinces him that she's,"[...] a fourteen-year-old woman in perfect working order [...]" 

Interestingly, Marie's and Marion's claims of womanhood would have been considered true prior to the The Renaissance and the invention of the printing press when there was no distinction between children and adults. And even up until the Great Depression, many children worked along side adults and weren't sequestered until they matured. 

 The Adolescent (1979) (1979) [French: L'adolescente] 
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