Hard Candy  The power of words can be the real torture.  "If
thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon
all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to
make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to
damnation add Greater than that." Shakespeare's Othello  When 32
year old photographer Jeff Kohlver (Patrick Wilson) hooks up
with 14 year old Hayley Stark (Ellen Page) in Hard Candy, it's a
memorable alliance for feminists who hold Lorena Bobbitt in awe
and rewatch Stephen King's Misery for torture pointers. Anyone
who saw the trailer and those who want to know a smidgen about
the plot will not be disappointed in this thriller's capacity to
attract and repulse as Hayley drugs, binds, and tortures him for
actions in the past about which he claims to have been "very
aware of the legal boundaries."  Having recently seen the play
Blackbird in London's West End, essentially a two-hander about a
12 year old girl returning at 27 to her middle-aged abuser, I
was prepared f