I did pity him. She was so mean to him, and just tortured him. It was disgusting how cruel she was. He was a helpless human being. I find it disturbing that not enough people don’t pity that character. The guy was not even a pedophile. He had a thing for teenage girls. Now that is wrong, but why is it that in “American Beauty”, the majority of the audience cheer on a grown man pursuing a teen girl, but hate another one in a different film?
As far as the violence in “Hard Candy” goes, there’s a line in “The Running Man” that Arnold says that sums it up:
“I can’t kill a helpless human being. Not even a sadistic scum like you.”
It’s a shame that type of goodness in people is very slowly dying. People are becoming more and more like the criminals. Heck, in criminal’s minds, they think they are doing the right thing. Being good is within the eye of the beholder, but once you resort to physical violence and torture upon a defenseless human being who has no fighting chance, you’re know longer one of the good people.