How the film Notting Hill damaged the neighborhood Notting Hill —
through gentrification.
At that time, I was dating a woman who lived in Notting Hill. I told
her I had enjoyed the film, and she said that she resented it for
forcing her to move to a farther part of London. Indeed,
gentrification is shown right on the screen. I still enjoy it despite
that, perhaps because it's a romantically inept bookish man's perfect
romantic fantasy.
At the end of the first encounter between the two main characters, Ms
Scott steals a kiss from Mr Thacker. Would you call that a "sexual
assault" and comparable to rape? Do you think she should be
prosecuted for that? I can imagine the scene in which Thacker
testifies at Scott's trial and falsely claims to have given verbal
consent in advance, thus sparing her a prison term. After hearing the
verdict, she runs over to him and kisses him, and they arrest her
again.