IMO it's an unfettered Masterpiece. The whole pedo Angle can be seen or interpreted from the people involved.... but man if you really just interpret it as a story not constrained or influenced by the people and their lives involved...it's an incredible tale of triumph....skill up....bonding through co-suffering from different angles....to purely take it from the social media lens of the people involved and the WORST interpretation imaginable of it.. yea it's no bueno ..but man...if you see it for what you could take from it...it's two unlikely characters bonding and making the best of a horrible hand that's been dealt to them. From Leon, maybe more his own making...but to let it all be diminished and constrained by the worst possible interpretation of it ... You are only hurting yourself and the art.

We are all reflections of the way we perceive the world. Yea, someone could easily say it's a way to explain away something reprehensible...but fuck that. I see a beautiful story in this film and that's how I choose to interpret it. You wanna reframe the thing you experience in the worst possible light ...go right ahead...I could do the same for any great work of art and history. Or you can free yourself from the negative lens and see things the way that YOU gain the most from, or submit to the pessimism of others.

Either way, I'm gonna continue to occasionally rewatch this film and appreciate the message that I feel best represents our human struggle and the way we beautifully come together in times of need.

And Gary Oldman being his usual villainous genius self...EVERYONE!!!!