the professional. leading man falls for 12 yr old lol. as repulsive as it sounds,
the movie works!
The nature of their relationship I kinda think is really hard to just say... yeah, he fell for her, I can see what you are getting at, cause it certainly can appear that way, however, it appears to me that she was more like reason to live for him, or the exact opposite of what he did for a living, which was take lives and basically just DEATH, so she was the antithesis of all that, providing him with life... spontaneous, creative, loving...all that stuff, that we so desperately want to feel, the exact opposite of what most of us feel isolation, self hate, blahhhh... anyway, that I think is the nature of the relationship, to say he just fell for her doesn't quite provide the adequate label for the depth of their relationship.
I think you are right on with your posts LB, and not totally disagreeing with u, just my take that there relationship can't be labeled so easily.