A woman aged around 30 finds that her childhood abuser is entering her professional life in the world of book publishing.
The screenplay attempts to run two stories concurrently. The story of when Alice was put upon by an older man and the story of her re- confronting this fifteen years later.
The problem is that these basics leave the plot with inadequate opportunity for further development later on. The acting and scene- by- scene directing are very good however.
Young Alice reacts credibly to the unwelcome advances, but fifteen is a little too old to come to much harm. It would provide more opportunity to the overall plot if a younger girl were being abused at this part of the story as well as more justification to what does happen.
In the present-day part of the plot, it is therefore reasonable that the confrontation leads to Alice quickly getting over it after fifteen years of psychological relapse. Unfortunately it means the plot is left short of material and is a bit unbalanced - either she should be deeply scarred or not as opposed to getting over deep disturbance quickly. As a result the film spins out just a few plot elements and just checks out at the end with everything all fine now.
The screenplay attempts to run two stories concurrently. The story of when Alice was put upon by an older man and the story of her re- confronting this fifteen years later.
The problem is that these basics leave the plot with inadequate opportunity for further development later on. The acting and scene- by- scene directing are very good however.
Young Alice reacts credibly to the unwelcome advances, but fifteen is a little too old to come to much harm. It would provide more opportunity to the overall plot if a younger girl were being abused at this part of the story as well as more justification to what does happen.
In the present-day part of the plot, it is therefore reasonable that the confrontation leads to Alice quickly getting over it after fifteen years of psychological relapse. Unfortunately it means the plot is left short of material and is a bit unbalanced - either she should be deeply scarred or not as opposed to getting over deep disturbance quickly. As a result the film spins out just a few plot elements and just checks out at the end with everything all fine now.