May December - Exploitation, Consumption and Façades
From Jeffrey Dahmer to Jack the Ripper, society has a fascination with evil in entertainment, there's something about packaging the monstrous into media that seems to captivate an audience. Todd Haynes' latest melodrama, May December, draws inspiration from the Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau case and shifts the spotlight to another despicable act: statuary rape of a child.