What do you think of Summer of '42

@bijouxbroussard if it follows the book, yeah ... it'd be a crime story nowadays

@firefall Exactly.

@bijouxbroussard yes, it was a different time then, a different culture. The movie doesn’t portray the boy as a victim in any way, and the woman is a sympathetic figure because she’s just lost her husband. But if the genders were reversed, I suspect we wouldn’t give a man a pass on this.

@Poppies We wouldn’t have, then or now.

@bijouxbroussard I was reading on Wikipedia that the book and movie are based on the author’s incident when 14, except that his did not go all the way to sex.