It was a very good crime film. True Detective would make a whole season out of this film. The visuals were stunning. Draught is really worrying and with the sun scorched vast fields with very scarce vegetation, the little town looked spooky. The bad locals doing heinous things in a little town feels so southern gothic. I really enjoyed it except for young Aaron didn't look like Aaron at all and it could have been about 20 minutes shorter.
The motive was very infuriating. The principal was a gambler and he owed money to some dangerous people so he killed Luke, his son and his wife who worked as an account at the school. And Ellie didn't commit suicide and none of her friends were responsible, either. It was his father who killed her. Aaron found her bad in the crack between the rock tree by the lake. He read her diary and made sure it was her father. They kept blaming Aaron for her death when he came back for investigation the deaths. I thought it was Gretchen because she had a son from Luke and she might have been jealous to kill.
The actors were good and I was impressed by how the town, the surroundings, the lake and the rock tree looked.
The motive was very infuriating. The principal was a gambler and he owed money to some dangerous people so he killed Luke, his son and his wife who worked as an account at the school. And Ellie didn't commit suicide and none of her friends were responsible, either. It was his father who killed her. Aaron found her bad in the crack between the rock tree by the lake. He read her diary and made sure it was her father. They kept blaming Aaron for her death when he came back for investigation the deaths. I thought it was Gretchen because she had a son from Luke and she might have been jealous to kill.
The actors were good and I was impressed by how the town, the surroundings, the lake and the rock tree looked.