the best thing about this film be aaron webber portrayal of 13 year old emerson . i would recommend keep an eye on his career in the future . i find it preposterous that a lad of 13 would desire his teacher . could someone please explain to me what be appeal about this old man as far a i can tell and nothing . if the teacher be young and well look and the student 16 instead of 13 and this movie might be believable . it be hard to get into a movie that be implausible out of the start gate . canadian take pride in their movie because they be often free and more daring than film make in the u. s. a. but one can be simply sordid and pointless instead of courageous and honest . the film maker should do something with this great freedom not proclaim it for it own sake . for all it suppose bravery and this movie be surprisingly conventional with regard to it depiction of the human body represent the female lead be show fully and plainly nude and whereas the father and the son be ever so carefully pose to avoid equivalent frankness . how traditionally sexist . in whole new thing and the viewer be presumably liberate from hackneyed and conservative american stereotype . but let take a close look at the character here represent in place of sexually crimp and over zealously religious parent try to retard the sensuality of their teenage child we get a careworn and pot smoking couple a withdrawn and tepid man and his sad and adulterous wife while in place of a restless and dutiful youth shackle by legalistic restriction on his behavior we get a kid who have no trouble lie about his intention because he believe the lie will help him manipulate a much old man into have sex with him while and instead of an uninspired teacher limit by narrow and parochial thinking we get a guy who think it perfectly acceptable to cruise for casual sex at a rest stop . be any of these free wheeling replacement an improvement over their safer and more traditionally draw counterpart . be the indignant radical cry really and liberate me so i can be sordid and miserable . there be seed of a high quality and courageous film in whole new thing and but they be never water or cultivate . for example and there be a passably good look kid who harass emerson verbally and physically at school . at one point and emerson ask him and what be it you want . but what if the film maker with their canadian courage explore the psychology of the bullying . what if emerson punch back with gusto and hold his own in a fistfight and then ask the question represent what be it you want . what if the bully desired emerson . ( this be certainly more plausible not to mention more innocent and age appropriate than emerson desire his teacher . ) how would such a relationship develop . would they try to date . would they meet secretly . how would the relationship affect the other kid in the school . the film might even flash forward to a committed and long term relationship when the boy be old . surely this would have be more interesting and dare than the somber radical be present with in this movie .