It's bizarre that this movie tries to drum up sympathy for the main character. She is a police officer and has a young son, and everyone tries to tell her it's a bad idea to take naked photos in a nudie magazine, but she dismisses all of their warnings.
Then she is SHOCKED when men look lustfully at her after having seen her naked in pictures, she is surprised her parents are disappointed, she can't believe her job could be affected by all her coworkers not respecting her or people on the street not respecting her authority.
Her son finds out by seeing the pictures in a magazine at the store and then is bullied, and naturally that is wrong, but she's saying "I'm so sorry that happened" as if it wasn't entirely predictable what would happen.
I mean, even if you don't think there is any moral problem with posing naked like that, surely it doesn't take a genius to realize that there are pragmatic concerns? And as a parent, shouldn't she have put her child's interest ahead of her own?
Everyone that tells her not to do it, she makes it THEIR problem for being judgmental or whatever. But then when her son is disappointed in her, how come she doesn't say "You're wrong, son, you're a male chauvinist, the fact you're embarrassed that other people have seen your mother naked means you're a bad person." Because even she knows deep down, he's not wrong for being embarrassed. It's actually natural and normal for him to react that way.
But she always makes it someone else's problem and someone else's fault.
Sure, the police department is full of hypocrites who do worse things, but that doesn't make what she did not stupid.
Yes, she had the freedom to do what she did. Other people also have the freedom to not approve. Yet she judges them for their disapproval, but they aren't allowed to judge her for her actions. She is naive and hypocritical.
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