The story evolves from a dramatic event, which is portrayed very dramatically.. oh wait, there's no story beyond that. Seriously, the movie started very promisingly, but slowly tapered off till nothing worth witnessing was left. You can't really base a contemporary drama on single dramatic event and use the rest of the movie for slow and painful torture of the viewer with the never-ending and incoherent journey into minds of characters that are struggling to deal with their reality. Especially if what they're going through is irrelevant in the first place. I understand that main character overacting is part of the deal, since her mother is a professional theater actress, but it's pretty annoying. She has a very distinguished vocabulary and mind of racing thoughts, but she's 17 and she's acting like her puberty has just begun. I get that she's confused but her epic struggle is not a path to glorious victory but something that's messed up and hardly deserves empathy and to a notable extent she denies her role in the tragic event. Summed up, we are living in a challenging age, people are being laid off the jobs, the economy of western world is weeping, and it's sort of expected people to adapt and carry on. And now even you want people to spend 2 hours and 30 minutes watching something this little dynamic? I'm sure the intentions were good, but I know a good drama when it comes to it, and this was in my opinion very poorly constructed.
