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iirc it's basically about Besson's relationship he had with an underage girl. I think, memory is hazy.
Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he started dating when he was 31 and she was 15.[26] They were married in late 1992 when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on 3 January 1993.[27] Le Besco later claimed that their relationship inspired Besson's film Léon (1994), where the plot involved the emotional relationship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl.[26]
In this case, it's Continental sophistication, actually. As a boorish American, you would not understand
Oui oui, I am having a propensity towards, ehhh, how do you say, les mademoiselles below le age of majority, hon hon hon
En Francais we have a word, I am, comme en dit, un prédateur. Sorry, I am afraid it cannot be translated
I used it think it was critique because leon is an emotionalaly disturbed probably neurodivergent serial killer.
However it turns out they are not being that subtle.
Yeah, Jean Reno is one of my favorite actors but this movie is just too much. I liked it when I was a teenager and now as an adult I am just like "stop using coy camera angles and a Mia Wallace haircut to sex up this child. What the fuck is wrong with France."
Natalie Portman also was a research assistant for the Dersch at Harvard.
I sat next to her on the delta shuttle from NY to Boston once. This was after star wars. Her dad drove her to the airport. He seemed sweet.
It made me uncomfortable when I watched it but I don't remember why
Problematic to be sure, but the climax/final action sequence is still one of the most badass I've ever seen.
