Emilia is a 15 years old that lives with her dad and her younger sister, Elsa,(oh yeah she also has an older brother, but we don't know why he was there because he is more life a chauffeur for Emilia), she is a great student, she is also a part of her school's running team, her boyfriend is one of those "cool"/jerk guys. Emilia does everything that she is told by her father and she doesn't seem to care, she goes shopping, clean a closet for her dad's new girlfriend, reads for Elsa.
One day her boyfriend and their friends bring Emilia to a pool party, then they tease her saying that she would never jump from one of those platforms and, as a teenager, she fell for this defiance. When she reaches the top she finds Siiri, the rebellious and this is where the toxic friendship starts.
Siiri has a kind of good-bad influence in Emilia because she thinks that Emilia should just do what she is told by her father,that's why she is "boring". However, Siiri is limitless doing stupid things, and inciting Emilia to do the same, or worst.
Siiri never recognises the wrong-doings that she does towards Emilia, Siiri seems like a broken adolescent crying for help - since her mother doesn't seem to give her any guidance, and only appearing once in the film (by the way, Emilia's mother doesn't appear in the film at all, only mentioned twice, could we understand that the lack of a mother presence would be a differential to a teenager girl upbringing?) - and Emilia is always the one approaching Siiri when you expect the other way to happen.
Emilia searches for approval, Siiri searches for companionship in her madness and self destructive behaviour. We can see that Emilia sets her free from this need of approval when she climbs that same platform again and Siiri is there and instead of sticking around with that "friend" who tells her "if I asked you to jump with me, would you?", Emilia caress her head, because she cares about Siiri, but she can't keep up with her anymore, she doesn't need her approval, then she climbs down the platform.
The film doesn't bring anything new in the teenager world of films, the acting isn't bad, but the actress that played Siiri stands more, the story in some parts doesn't the realistic even teenagers have some moral and limits. Would I recommend to teenagers? No, it would take a bit of thought to understand the meaning of the film, also most of Siiri and Emilia's misbehaviour go unpunished, thus teens could understand the film as "wow, so I can do some bad stuff and never get caught".
One day her boyfriend and their friends bring Emilia to a pool party, then they tease her saying that she would never jump from one of those platforms and, as a teenager, she fell for this defiance. When she reaches the top she finds Siiri, the rebellious and this is where the toxic friendship starts.
Siiri has a kind of good-bad influence in Emilia because she thinks that Emilia should just do what she is told by her father,that's why she is "boring". However, Siiri is limitless doing stupid things, and inciting Emilia to do the same, or worst.
Siiri never recognises the wrong-doings that she does towards Emilia, Siiri seems like a broken adolescent crying for help - since her mother doesn't seem to give her any guidance, and only appearing once in the film (by the way, Emilia's mother doesn't appear in the film at all, only mentioned twice, could we understand that the lack of a mother presence would be a differential to a teenager girl upbringing?) - and Emilia is always the one approaching Siiri when you expect the other way to happen.
Emilia searches for approval, Siiri searches for companionship in her madness and self destructive behaviour. We can see that Emilia sets her free from this need of approval when she climbs that same platform again and Siiri is there and instead of sticking around with that "friend" who tells her "if I asked you to jump with me, would you?", Emilia caress her head, because she cares about Siiri, but she can't keep up with her anymore, she doesn't need her approval, then she climbs down the platform.
The film doesn't bring anything new in the teenager world of films, the acting isn't bad, but the actress that played Siiri stands more, the story in some parts doesn't the realistic even teenagers have some moral and limits. Would I recommend to teenagers? No, it would take a bit of thought to understand the meaning of the film, also most of Siiri and Emilia's misbehaviour go unpunished, thus teens could understand the film as "wow, so I can do some bad stuff and never get caught".
