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[[File:hard-candy.jpg|frame|Is she trapped... or is she bait?]]
{{quote|''Strangers shouldn't talk to little girls.''}}
A 2005 psychological thriller/
The film is interesting, due to its controversial nature and unsympathetic and hard-to-categorize lead characters.
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]]: Played straight as Hayley, a fourteen year old girl, is torturing Jeff as punishment for supposedly being a 32-year-old male predator {{spoiler|(Jeff IS a predator, but it is not made absolutely clear in the movie, so viewers will abide by this trope at first)}}, then [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructed]] as Hayley crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and then [[Reconstructed Trope|reconstructed]] as Jeff's deeds get increasingly violent as well as Hayley uncovering more evidence that Jeff is a predator.▼
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* [[Bifauxnen]]: Hayley, who looks more like a cute little boy than a [[Fille Fatale]]. Which makes sense, considering the [[
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* [[Date My Avatar]]: Goes both ways. We have this charming guy and this sweet young girl, and they have so much in common. But they are both faking it. They are really predators, trying to lure each other into a trap.
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{{quote|'''Hayley:''' You have the concert?!
'''Jeff:''' Just one song. And a little louder, please, so the authorities know! }}
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* [[Evil Plan]]: Unusual in that there are two.
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** And not long after that: {{spoiler|"Four out of five doctors agree that I am actually insane."}}
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** Hayley also has comebacks for Jeff's other [[Breaking Speech|speeches]], brushes aside his possible [[Freudian Excuse]] and anticipates and reverses the [[Candlelit Bath]] moment as mentioned above.
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* [[Groin Attack]]: Easily one of the most horrible groin assaults in cinema. {{spoiler|It's also a subversion.}}
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▲* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Juno]] / [[Inception|Ariadne]] and [[The Phantom of the Opera|Raoul]] / [[Watchmen (film)|Nite Owl II]]. In the same movie.
▲* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]] or [[Karmic Death]], from a certain point of view.
▲* [[Hopper Shot]]: The Nighthawks and a T-Shirt. An homage to the painting.
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▲* [[I Lied]]: ''"...Or not."''
▲* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: {{spoiler|At the final climax of the film, Hayley reveals that she's been toying with Jeff from the very beginning and has known exactly what he is and what he's done from before he even talked to her}}
* [[Jittercam]]: In probably one of the most violent uses ever in film, and this was before Cloverfield.
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* [[Little Red Fighting Hood]]: It's wolf v. wolf here, really.
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* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: It's been said the story was inspired by gangs of young Japanese girls that have cropped up in recent years. They lure in [[Lolicon|certain kinds of men]] by playing the part of "innocent-yet-naughty" schoolgirls, and once they have one alone, they beat, rob, and blackmail him.▼
* [[Scenery Porn]]: The director had previously done music videos. The production looks absolutely sumptuous, even though the production was made on a shoestring -- exactly the state of most music videos.▼
* [[Serial Killer]]: {{spoiler|By the end of the film, Hayley has a body count of at least two men. It's strongly implied that these are not her first.}}▼
** {{spoiler|Well, lets also not forget that Jeff and his friend are heavily implied to have raped and killed the underage girl Hayley mentions. Implied being used loosely, because while Jeff denies it at first, he eventually says that it was all his friend's idea, to which Hayley replies that was the same defense the other man used after she confronted him.}}▼
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Possibly. We learn nothing really about the characters' lives and there isn't much of a moral to draw from any of the proceedings.▼
** We never get a definite answer as to whether or not {{spoiler|Jeff killed Donna Mauer}}.▼
▲* [[The Ace]]: What Hayley appears to be on the surface.
▲* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: The combination to Jeff's safe consists of a significant date that is also part of his IM nickname and the date of his most (emotionally) important photo shoot, written on the back of his prints of said shoot.
** Partially subverted in that the full date/combination isn't written down, Hayley has to do some educated guesswork and trial and error to discover it.
* [[Vigilante Man]]: Hayley tries to be something like this -- or, at least, {{spoiler|that's her justification for picking the victims she does}}.▼
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Both Jeff and Hayley. Possibly.▼
* [[To the Pain]]: Hayley clearly just wants to torture him as much as she possibly can {{spoiler|and ''then'' kill him}}▼
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* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Lolita]]'' meets ''[[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo]]''.
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