I only watched this through to the end because I had paid £2.50 for it in a charity shop and I watch my pennies. But even then I watched it in fifteen minute stages because my brain was going numb.
I agree it was a really good idea but it is badly executed. It just doesn't work.
I love theatre. Sometimes a stage play can work as a film and be original and exciting - but not this, which was very stagey.
It could have worked if it had been done with any skill and feeling, but it wasn't.
The voiceover goes on and on and is a terrible piece of writing in itself.
John Hurt's voice was irritating.
The rest of the dialogue is terrible - it is banal, tedious beyond belief - a group of 13 year olds could do better. Far too wordy.
Terrible terrible terrible. It just tries too hard, it finds it impossible to leave anything out, which is a patronising way of creating a film because it leaves nothing to the viewer.
The writing has absolutely no sophistication: it just thinks it does.
This director CANNOT write (or direct - very very sloppy direction).
I felt sorry for the actors.
The rape scenes were upsetting for more than their subject matter - the whole handling of it was upsetting and voyeuristic, and this was not justified by the ending.
I felt the director was getting off on it.
I waited for the revelation at the end and it was dire.
When I posted this in Aug. 2013 I received a very threatening message from someone who violently disagreed with me.
If this happens again I will report it.
I agree it was a really good idea but it is badly executed. It just doesn't work.
I love theatre. Sometimes a stage play can work as a film and be original and exciting - but not this, which was very stagey.
It could have worked if it had been done with any skill and feeling, but it wasn't.
The voiceover goes on and on and is a terrible piece of writing in itself.
John Hurt's voice was irritating.
The rest of the dialogue is terrible - it is banal, tedious beyond belief - a group of 13 year olds could do better. Far too wordy.
Terrible terrible terrible. It just tries too hard, it finds it impossible to leave anything out, which is a patronising way of creating a film because it leaves nothing to the viewer.
The writing has absolutely no sophistication: it just thinks it does.
This director CANNOT write (or direct - very very sloppy direction).
I felt sorry for the actors.
The rape scenes were upsetting for more than their subject matter - the whole handling of it was upsetting and voyeuristic, and this was not justified by the ending.
I felt the director was getting off on it.
I waited for the revelation at the end and it was dire.
When I posted this in Aug. 2013 I received a very threatening message from someone who violently disagreed with me.
If this happens again I will report it.