padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
btw you may ask, where are this boy's parents?
well, it turns out he's teenage entrepreneur/schemer who employs his own mother (father never appears) so doesn't really have any parental figures
Alana Haim otoh is shown to be a directionless mid-20s womanchild - which would be a nice gender inversion of the manchild stereotype were her love interest not, yunno, a teenager - who lives at home w/her overbearing parents
more than just plot/character development these seem to be also choices designed to artificially move their relative ages closer together - he's precocious, she's immature - to make their romance seem less weird, but has the exactly the opposite effect of making it even more uncomfortable. like, cringe is totally legitimate vibe in comedy, drama, or as here, comedy-drama. but you don't resolve cringe by saying "and then they lived happily ever after".
Licorice Pizza is essentially just this but totally without any of the moral juxtaposition/ironic distancing that Kyle provides
// rant over
well, it turns out he's teenage entrepreneur/schemer who employs his own mother (father never appears) so doesn't really have any parental figures
Alana Haim otoh is shown to be a directionless mid-20s womanchild - which would be a nice gender inversion of the manchild stereotype were her love interest not, yunno, a teenager - who lives at home w/her overbearing parents
more than just plot/character development these seem to be also choices designed to artificially move their relative ages closer together - he's precocious, she's immature - to make their romance seem less weird, but has the exactly the opposite effect of making it even more uncomfortable. like, cringe is totally legitimate vibe in comedy, drama, or as here, comedy-drama. but you don't resolve cringe by saying "and then they lived happily ever after".
Licorice Pizza is essentially just this but totally without any of the moral juxtaposition/ironic distancing that Kyle provides
// rant over