Natalie Portman recently spoke of how, as a kid, she got fan mail detailing rape fantasies sent to her at 12 years old after doing the movie, The Professional. For those of you that don't know it, it's a story of an adult hitman, looks to be in 40s, that takes in a 12 year old girl. Throughout the movie she is dressed in short skirts, short shirts and even underwear. She tells the hitman Leon that she's in love with him, tries to get kisses, tells him she wants her first time to be good with him and tells someone they are lovers. She plays a game where she dresses in lingerie pretending to be Madonna, singing like a virgin and also seductively sings a happy birthday as a heavily made-up Marilyn Monroe. She also smokes and drinks in the film.
Leon ignores her attempts and spits up milk twice with her flirting. He does leave the apartment once after she confesses her feelings for him and he leans up against the wall to breathe... we can speculate that he's tempted by this girl. He ends up telling her how happy she has made him and telling her he loves her. hey also cuddle in bed together. While the film can be viewed as a cute child crush that's denied, there is no reason to dress a cute little girl up in sexy outfits, doing seductive things to a much older man. It's creepy and it promotes pedophilia, violence, smoking & getting children drunk.
What's interesting is the movie is all over youtube, like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fy901db2aA, unlike other films that are removed. Reading over some reviews on Imdb, it seems the director casts a lot of very young women in roles.
There is an Italian restaurant in the at the start of the film, it has a pig on the Window. There are pigs throughout the film, as decorations and an oven mitt / toy. Alefantis also mentions pigs a lot and has pictures of pig eyes. In mythology, which JA is big on, pigs are associated with the underworld.
From: https://amethjera.blogspot.com/2012/08/pigs-in-pagan-myth.html
Pigs were often associated with the underworld: it is believed that swineherds can cross the veil unimpeded. Because of this they were associated with demons and spirits. In the Biblical story where Jesus casts the demons into a herd of swine, the modern understand in of the symbolism is that he did so because the swine were considered unclean and according to the story were at once driven mad and hurled themselves off a cliff. [Mark 5:12, Revised Standard Version] The writers of the Old Testament were scholars of antiquity and as such often wove obscure occult facts into Biblical text: pigs, as sacred animals of the underworld, would have been able to have been possessed by the demons and carry them off without being harmed. This is why the demons made such an odd request of Jesus, and he complied. The additional caveat of them hurling themselves off a cliff echoed the reoccurring theme of the triumph of Good over Evil, when God throws Satan into the abyss, and was a later addition to the original story.
Here is an article on Egyptian sacrifice of pigs to the moon: http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/eml/eml08.htm
In the myth of Persephone/Hades, pigs are being fed as Persephone is abducted to the underworld, along with the pigs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone
His swine were swallowed by the earth along with her, and the myth is an etiology for the relation of pigs with the ancient rites in Thesmophoria,[62] and in Eleusis.
This is just touching on the subject of pigs but I found it startling that pigs would be a symbol in a movie that had so many pedophilia undertones.
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Millennial_Falcon ago
Rule 2 and 3: Needs examples to support claims of pigs throughout the film.
alloutwar ago
wtf are you talking about? I gave examples. Did you not read?
Millennial_Falcon ago
I don't have time to thoroughly read every single post, especially the long ones, so I must have missed it. Generally when you are citing examples of something from a film or video, it's best practice to include timestamps. Most of your post is discussion of the general symbolism of pigs, so it was easy to miss the instances you cited from the film.