A good film. Great casting and great acting.
Everyone played their role well. The story was not predictable nor cliched. It felt real through most of it.
My only gripe might be that the second half didn't seem as believable. I don't think that is how it would have gone down. He would be VERY unlikely to speak to his dad, and if he did it would have only been because he was under a huge amount of emotional distress, which they didn't show that he was.
Then when she challenges his version of the story, I think he would have done more to show that she was lying. He would have focussed on all of the details, things that would have shown that he wasn't making things up, and he could have just said that someone saw them - an easy verification.
Still, this aside, it was very well done. I was very involved and I believed the other parts of the interactions. Also, it was interesting to watch my own perception to the badness of what was going on morph. At the beginning you are hoping it will happen because it is so exciting, in that way you are caught up with the characters in those early stages. And then when everything starts to unfold, you realise how bad it was. Its the same journey you go on with Ana Karennina - captivated by the moment, you lose sight of the morality, just like they did.
Everyone played their role well. The story was not predictable nor cliched. It felt real through most of it.
My only gripe might be that the second half didn't seem as believable. I don't think that is how it would have gone down. He would be VERY unlikely to speak to his dad, and if he did it would have only been because he was under a huge amount of emotional distress, which they didn't show that he was.
Then when she challenges his version of the story, I think he would have done more to show that she was lying. He would have focussed on all of the details, things that would have shown that he wasn't making things up, and he could have just said that someone saw them - an easy verification.
Still, this aside, it was very well done. I was very involved and I believed the other parts of the interactions. Also, it was interesting to watch my own perception to the badness of what was going on morph. At the beginning you are hoping it will happen because it is so exciting, in that way you are caught up with the characters in those early stages. And then when everything starts to unfold, you realise how bad it was. Its the same journey you go on with Ana Karennina - captivated by the moment, you lose sight of the morality, just like they did.