Jailbait (2014)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Truly Dreadful Film

Touches You

One of my all time favorites.

This may contain spoilers.This film does have a happy ending, which comes quite suddenly, as though the makers of the movie had run out of nasty things to do to the heroine and decided that, maybe, the poor girl had suffered enough. Hard to disagree, for suffer she did. Anna was beaten up several times, sexually abused by the Warden from Day One and locked naked in solitary confinement several times before being sent to the psycho ward and given a Silence of the Lambs mask. She did get to wear nice pyjamas in the hospital wing, though - a vast improvement on the orange wear. Talking of orange, some of the inmates wore white jumpsuits. I wonder why? One important social message conveyed by the film concerns the importance of safety in the home. Drunken, abusive stepfathers need to watch where they are falling. Glass can be lethal.Also, the lecherous, corrupt warden had a voice that reminded me of the villainous J R Ewing in the great TV series, Dallas. Another lesson to be learned is that plastic trays can be a suicide risk. Giving a disturbed girl who has already threatened to kill herself this opportunity to carry out her threat is a major breach of security. I was glad she finally got the chance to play her cello in public, dressed in a nice gown and watched by her mother.

Scrolling through the Netflix choices, I came upon this gem, which somehow managed to garner a three-star rating (guess a lot of pervs use Netflix). It started with a girl sitting in her bedroom doing one of the worst imitations of a musician I've ever seen on film. I knew from that point this was going to be bad. Then she gets raped by her step- father, and ends up doing jail time when she defends herself. I told you it was going to be bad. After that, she spends some time in a maximum security prison of course, where they basically try to piece together nearly every story line from the first two seasons of 'Orange is the New Black' (only got through two seasons of that show until we got tired of it). And then it ends with her doing an even worse imitation of a musician than in the opening scene. Horrendous.

This is the letter I wrote to Netflix after having watched the movie...Hi Netflix!My friends and I wanted to watch a movie last night and scrolled through your list of independent movies with strong female leads. "Jailbait" sounded interesting so we watched it. The movie made us all feel really really sick! Instead of a strong female lead the movie was like a low budget soft porn movie starring a women who looked like a trafficking victim with huge silicon implants (she was supposed to play a 17 year old A-student). It's really not appropriate to show such hyper sexist movies, especially not under that category!

A teenage cello player called Anna fights off the sexual advances of her drunken step father and accidentally kills him . She is found guilty of manslaughter and is sentenced to several years in a maximum security juvenile detention centre "Hold on Theo surely that's self defence and if it was self defence she wouldn't be guilty of anything ?" Yes but that would be realistic and would mean there wouldn't be a film and after seeing JAILBAIT that wouldn't have been much of a loss either!!!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILER !!!!!! You can imagine the producer getting the screenwriter in to the office at first draft stage and shouting at him "What's going on here ? You've written five pages and so far there hasn't been a lesbian sex session .I don't want to read a screenplay that goes five pages without lesbian sex . Got it ?" And so we do get it . American maximum security juvenile detention centres for young women are hotbeds of lesbian sex . Now to be fair myself and 3.5 billion men would if they're honest admit to liking lesbian sex but not to the point where a film merely exists to indulge male fantasy . We know where to find it on the internet and our primary reason for watching a film in the off chance a couple of hot chicks showing their affection for one another in the most physical way possible isn't really why most of us watch films . Especially if it's presented in such a crass , cynical and banal way as presented here where Anna arrives I prison and within hours her cellmate is masturbating to her while she sleeps . The story and scenario is every bit as fake and plastic as Anna's silicone boobs . There's no character development and no credibility to any of this and the only remit the production team have is to include as much nudity and lesbian sex as possible regardless of how much sense it makes and how it fits in to the confused narrative You can work out the ending as soon as someone mentions they've got an I-phone and this will come back to haunt the prison warder who apart from looking like a cross between an aging Tom Berenger and Dubya Bush is also an obscene sexual predator who also uses Anna as his sex toy . Suddenly lesbian sex - even to the most innocent hetrosexual girl - might have its appeal after all