The Shocking Back To The Future Realization!!

So I bought Back to the Future the other day at Target because it was so darn cheap.  I've watched that movie hundreds of times in the past 18 years, so many times that I can literally quote it without provocation or assistance.  It's one of those movies that make me happy and remind me of my childhood, and yet are amazing in their own right.  So anyway, I bought it on DVD and threw it in to relive the glory days.  And I'm not sure if it was my innocence causing me to cling to ignorance, but Marty seems a bit more dirty than I remember.  I mean, there he is telling George that he's not going to touch Lorraine's private parts, that it's all just an act, and then...well, I believed him.  Perhaps it's part of my naivete, but I trusted Marty.  I didn't think he was going to stoop that low.  He was the epitome of cool and I was sure he had some alternative methodology that I was too young to understand.

But here I am, age 23, and looking at things a bit askew.  When Marty asks Lorraine if she's ever had to do something and didn't have the courage to go through with it, I thought he was talking about George, like that maybe George would chicken out and not punch Marty in the stomach and he'd be stuck in 1955 forever, being chased by his own mother.  But he was, I realized, talking about himself.  He knew he had to "feel up" his mother (for lack of a PG-rated term) so that she'd be genuinely angry at Marty and would welcome George's rescue.  He was really going to go that far?  The plan was that intense?  He couldn't come up with something a little less Oedipal and revolting?  As much as Marty would have been scarred by that occurrence, I became more scarred.

I mean, I guess Marty needed to be convincing.  There was no way that Lorraine was going to get angry at the hottest guy in 1955 if he didn't, but couldn't he have said some inappropriate things to her?  Couldn't he have just been a complete jerk and driven her away?  Instead of going to "park" (which, sadly, I also learned the true meaning and intent of, which 1) makes the story more sensical but also 2) destroys my last shred of innocence), couldn't he have just driven like a crazy man around the parking lot and done tons of other things to ruin the night for her?  I don't know...he had a whole week of acting incognito to brew up something good.

But now his question to Lorraine means so much more.  Luckily for us, the viewers, he couldn't go through with it.  Hopefully.  I guess we'll never know because Biff showed up.  What a save...