kids say the darndest things

Hands down that little girl gave the best child actress performance I’ve ever seen. She already managed to snatch some attention with her “knowledge beyond her years” attitude in her 500 Days of Summer character and now she’s figured how to channel that over in remnants of this new character in Kick Ass, where she plays a no-holds-bar bad ass miniature vigilante. She’s a hard-core trained assassinator and holds her own in a man to man combat with a grown adult man. 11 year old Chloë Moretz carries herself with the adult charisma that will set her apart from the already recognized Dakota Fanning’s and the former Drew Barrymore’s. In Kick Ass alone, she’s cursing and handling heavy artillery; which is slightly disturbing to know that she never exposes awkwardity for holding guns or driving cars…or committing relentless murders for that matter. That’s definitely the main reason why this film is receiving the rare, but existent negative reviews; traditional Hollywood doesn’t know how to receive a little girl that isn’t little. But this is the thing, when it comes to child actors, us adults forget that they are in the business of portraying characters just like grown-ups do. They are acting too! We expect kids to be kids, and to be seen as such. But let’s not discredit that Chloë is probably still a kid at heart, and that she simply did her job. She delivered such a compelling performance that the critics forget to criticize the skill that it took for her to carry that out. To further the contradictions of Hollywood: they gather these talented children and provide them the venues it takes to roll out the red carpet (so to speak) of stardom for the price of their innocence and childhood; and then as soon as they begin to live up to the pressures that adulthood imposes on them from the business, they’re judged for not being nascent. It’s bothersome that the industry is that hypocritical.

Without her input, I know for sure that I wouldn’t have enjoyed the film as much as I did. Go see it for yourself.