VividSimon Simply Perfect

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

axapvov Over two hours of rights and wrongs... my personal experience is that I didn´t check my watch for about two hours and when the credits rolled I stayed put. It´s hypnotic how it sustains a relentless pace for that long. It´s many things at once: a moral dilemma, a growing process, a mother-daughter relationship... and more. Everything accumulates with a plausible chaos similar to real life nonsense. In that aspect the script seems to have been written on its own. Things happen and we react. That makes any off-putting scene easily forgivable because characters seriously come to life and reactions and interactions seem inevitable. It focuses entirely on Lisa, a well-intentioned, educated, confused and pretentious teenager. The rest of an impressive cast only exist in relation to her and there are unexpected small parts played by big names that support this project´s epic ambitions. This is the first film I´ve seen that takes full advantage of Anna Paquin´s talent for over-acting. Her character is a turmoil of emotions and she doesn´t hold back. She´s often unfair, judgmental, self-centered and over-dramatic but those traits ring true to the character. Paquin shows her struggle to develop as a person, her will to do the right thing and be the best she can be. She makes her character believable and ultimately likable.What I didn´t like were the dialogues, constantly using big words for the sake of it and over-explaining emotions. If Lisa was the only character to fall into that I´d be ok with it, but she´s not. That makes different characters seem deranged in the exact same way. Emily´s scenes lose a lot of credibility because of that. Then there´s the accident which inspires the whole "moral gimnasium". It isn´t intricate enough to sustain the epic conflict of interests it aims for. What we get is a whole lot of legal mumbo-jumbo. It´s unbalanced the way it insists on some points while leaving others almost untouched. Lisa´s guilt should have been explored further since she had such a big part on the accident. I´m guessing the film suffered enormously from the nightmarish editing process I only learned about later. The chaos kind of gets out of control at some point and the epic it looks for gets lost, absurd, even. I can understand how it was supposed to be an even longer film but I don´t see how including details about her abortion would have improved upon the dilemma.Again, lots of rights and wrongs, it depends which part you choose to stay with. It´s a pitty because the ending is effective and the overall experience is rich, despite its many flaws.

zezidud This is an extraordinary psychological story that explores the strange way in which guilt turns into anger, a process that is not necessarily straightforward and is therefore beyond the comprehension of just about everyone who hasn't been through a similar experience. Such understanding even tends to be inaccessible for those who have actually been there unless they're very honest and perceptive or very lucky. I am deeply impressed with both the conception and the execution of this film, especially the writing, but all other aspects are beautifully done: the direction, the acting, the music, the cinematography, every element is worthy of the depth of the story. I'm tempted to call it a perfect movie. What else can I say? Here is what else I can say: If you like movies that feature action stars driving orange pickup trucks backwards at ninety miles an hour, this movie is not your cup of tea.

cheergal If you want to put a positive spin on this movie, you may say it has its originality. Those oversupplied subplots really got me going to see the end. Kudo to the director on that.I recently watch "Young Adam" and was quite taken in by the story. This one also has an unrelated title to the characters in the movie. However, I would say most audience would not be able to guess where it came from. It was shot in 2005, released in 2011 and not picked up by the main distributions even then. So you may see where the audience stood for. However, it's not the worst adolescent movie I ever saw so far. It had some witty dialogues at least.Starting the movie with excessively graphic car accident really confused me with horror than sorrow. The director seemed to have all the scenarios play out but failed to connect them cohesively. I also feel Anna Paquin was not the right girl to play the role. She has a full grown woman's figure. It's hard to disguise as a teenager. Ellen Page would be ideal. And Allison Janney should play Emily. Jeannie Berlin's performance was too theatrical and over the top in some degrees. The only success in this movie would be keeping you guessing what would happen next. This one reminded me of "Incendiary" which suffered the similar fate. I would say sometimes the directors lost their vision of the movie media should be. It's not like writing a novel. You only can use it to carry out the most vital messages.Throughout all the ordeals in life, everyone will end fine. That probably summed up what this movie is about.

stock-1 After a long sit through, i finished watching, and I must thank the director for his courage to release this to the theater. It's sometimes very slow pace seems to have become outlawed these days. Also thanks for the very beautiful snippets of top class opera. Well actually we should thank Mr. Jean Reno for this to happen. So please be advised and take to heart that when a man like Reno has to ponder something about Palestine, Israel and the jews, as a jewisch citizen of New York with an apartment looking down at Central Park, at least try to be a humble person instead of throwing wine on his nice suit. This can be most damaging to the heart for a man like Reno and where he is coming from. And indeed the next day Reno had a heart attack and the funeral thereafter. You simply don't treat people like this. It reminds me of that Russian mob boss who in rage killed his own chef and the next day is forced to have dinner out. The movie certainly has struck a nerve of recent days and times, when Lisa tries to tell her story in good faith, she is only heading for trouble and gets kicked out, She even gets expelled from class when yet another baseless discussion row is started with her class mate from Syria. Margaret is a very nice shot movie about a young jewisch girl triggered into teenage trouble by being a first responder witness to a traumatic bus accident.