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    ‘The Drama’ Director Kristoffer Borgli’s 2012 Essay on His Controversial Romance Resurfaces. The piece, written by Borgli, then 27, reflects on a recent relationship he had with a teenage girl (full translated text of the essay via The Hollywood Reporter)
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    ‘The Drama’ Director Kristoffer Borgli’s 2012 Essay on His Controversial Romance Resurfaces. The piece, written by Borgli, then 27, reflects on a recent relationship he had with a teenage girl (full translated text of the essay via The Hollywood Reporter)

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    2. Imagine_New1787 on

      What a cliché fucking loser. It’s so funny that every one of the many many many many males who carry on like this genuinely believes their grossness is ~different lmao. 

    7. SevereIntroduction37 on

      Oof. That’s a prime example of how people justify their actions in their head

    12. OrangeFilmer on

      Oh this is really BAD! This essay reads like him trying to rationalize and normalize his relationship with this high school girl 🤢

      > I chose to listen to Woody over my friends

      Insane thing to say yikes

    13. Silver-Eye4569 on

      He chose to listen to an accused child sexual abuser to confirm his relationship was cool. WTF.

    21. purplepotato_16 on

      The first 2 screenshots were torturous but reading “I chose to listen to Woody over my friends” was my HARD stop. I can’t bear to read the last ones 🤢🤢

    22. Glad_Pea_4871 on

      what the fuck did I just read is this an essay about fucking a 17 year old all summer??

    24. ComprehensiveDoubt55 on

      Try to sell your pedophilia by sealing it with appreciation and shared love of Woody Allen is a fucking CHOICE.

    27. di4me666 on

      i just today wrote a review on letterboxd naming him my new favorite director (after sick of me) ….. oof

    28. Shitty_Wingman on

      “I chose Woddy Allen over my friends” fucking nasty. Also, he quotes Ghost World and Lost in Translation as May-December romances, but (arguably) neither of those were romances, and most definitely did either feature the older man sleeping with the teenager!

    29. taketotheforest on

      it’s literally so easy not to fuck teenagers. these men need to be locked up for their own safety as much as anyone else’s if this is a hurdle they fall at

    31. lavenderbl0d on

      Honestly as a survivor…. I fucking hate these freaks. These fucking pedophiles, and this industry and this society that allows this to happen and expects us to be okay with it.

      To protect them. Fucking ghouls.

    32. Miserable-Fan6 on

      YIKES. The whole time he dances around that she’s SIXTEEN while using the most gag-worthy language known to man to describe it. Also romanticizing sneaking around her parents’ house while being 27??? Pathetic 🤢

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    33. chappiescappy on

      It’s giving “Half His Age” – man thinks he’s a deep, tortured soul for dating a young girl, but turns out to be a loser in the end.

    34. DavidC_M on

      “I’m gonna write this clever little thing and I’ll try to sound hip and modern. And everyone will think of it as crafty and lighthearted. Never mind that the topic is me fucking an underage teenager. And the fact that I try to make my immoral relationship seem okay by following in the footsteps of a giant pariah like woody Allen.”

    39. PrinceofSneks on

      Bad situation in the first place, but this is like a Trumpian terrible explanation.

    40. pendragons on

      I hate a lot of things about pedophilia, but this essay really highlights the violence of this particular kind (the “ebebophile” going after the “nearly legal” teens). It’s about influence and molding.

      What I mean is, he could probably find a girl who is in her early 20s who is fairly physically similar to a 16 year old who had a very maturing puberty. He isn’t after her physical childishness the way the Humbert Humbert tween-fuckers are.

      No, “my favourite films become her favourite films” is really telling. It’s cultural violence. This girl would not give him the time of day if they were the same age and he knows it, he knows she is cooler than him, and can’t stand it, so he centers himself. Her taste exists now to refine his own taste and give him the urbane chic he longs for. He wants to feel less mediocre so he inflicts his own shit taste on her. Probably negs her into watching Seinfeld (funny how all his cultural references are themselves pedophiles.)

      The only way he can manage that influence over her is taking advantage of her sexual and romantic naivete. And it’s playing into the exact May-December cultural narratives he calls back to as reassuring for her, too, I bet — I remember being a pretentious and cool teenager and how excited I was when my friend’s dad, a professor and author, tried to seduce me. It proved I was an “old soul”, that I was “mature for my age” and “not like other girls”. I too loved Lost in Translation and Woody Allen and wanted to be the beautiful ingenue in those films. I loved student/teacher fanfiction from a certain series that will not be named. I could have written my own essay justifying it.

      Needless to say having my life and tastes enveloped by an adult who is too excruciatingly lame to pull women his own age is not the positive and empowering experience I thought it was going to be. The pressure. The difference in needs and forcefulness compared to my same age boyfriends. The power over me – he had money, he could drive, he knew the way the world worked. That power was so much more important to him than my physical appearance.

      I wish we could hear from the girl in the essay. For him it was a near-miss summer fling. For her it might have ruined her self esteem and changed her taste and self perception in a way that could be life ruining.

      Anyway. Fuck this man and all men like him. We need radical youth empowerment, and pedophilia law reform, and a standard of 18 for statutory, worldwide.

    41. Cool_Cry_9602 on

      I was just telling my friend I wanted to see The Drama in theaters. I take that back, this pedo man will not be getting any of my money!

    42. DifficultyWarming on

      Can you imagine being one of the friends lol.
      ‘Hey bro you know you sound insane?’ “No way, woody Allen says this is normal, so, must be a new age thing that it’s not normal anymore.”
      I’d be like cool so I’m going to report ya real quick, I’ll let her parents know too, let’s see what they all think about it, yeah?

    44. imstillhealing on

      “She never laughed at my Seinfeld references” oh that’s fucking ironic.

    45. Beepboop5698 on

      ok well i guess i’ll be keeping my $12 and i won’t be watching the drama next week

    46. SomethinCleHver on

      Some gold level mental gymnastics there, dude. Choosing to listen to Woody Allen’s fictional account in a then 33 year old film over most of the people in his life… then publishing an essay on the decision like it’s some intellectual think piece. Ew.

    47. quantumdreamqueen on

      “I chose to listen to Woody over my friends” are some famous last words. This is so revolting. I hope that girl is okay now.

    48. marigoldmilk on

      Mind you he wrote and published this of his own accord thinking it was a good idea…

    50. Shribble18 on

      If someone were to write a parody of a 20-something navel gazing weirdo in the arts who is dating a teenager in 2012, it would read exactly like this.

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