It was terrible. The story lacks intensity, I got to the end of the film without even realising it, it felt like for the whole duration the film was just a big introduction for something that doesn't actually come. The relationship of the main characters has no foundation, the only things we get are from Rigel when there are flashbacks with her friend, otherwise we have absolutely no reason to see them as a couple, we don't know why she is in love or why they actually love each other. They throw everything into 'it's like that' without even trying to delve into it, trying to get away with a few poetic lines about damned love. The themes also have some relevance and delicacy, however the final part is completely rushed, devoid of emotion, although I felt I had to feel something, at least sadness for the sad story of the orphanage, the narration of the facts ruined everything. The characters individually can also hold their own, apart from the usual trope of the damned bad boy who beats people left and right, but the actors definitely need to improve, half of the things Rigel's actor said were incomprehensible. On top of that, they inserted incomplete storylines probably put in as an easter egg from the book, which clearly doesn't work if these storylines aren't even hinted at after a random introduction.
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