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The Maine coastline is a beautiful backdrop for this film. The girl who played Hannah was great as were the rest of the cast. Jesus said " follow me and i will make you fishers of men "..I think the Pastor, who is also Hannahs adoptive parent may have forgotten that.

So at the start here apparently some kid jumps off a cliff. Kind've a shock to a relatively small island community. Missing but presumed dead, this kid.

The main character in this story, Hannah, she struggles with the fact that she and this jumping boy they exchanged looks right before he jumped apparently. Her story unfolds as a young girl growing up in this religious community. Dealing with Life.

She goes to work on Micheal's father's lobster boat. Michael being the boy who jumped and is presumed dead. Ahh she's only 14. She is going thru the rebellious teen years of course which is not working out well for her 'guardian' who happens to be the minister of the local Church.

+1 Star for the first half of the film, which is an interesting story of this young girl raised in the small community environs along with religion.

+1 Star for the conclusion of the film

Really a touching tale of how different people deal with life and Loss. Nothing outstanding. Nothing horrifying . Nothing overly dramatic. Good storytelling. 7/10

Set in a tight-knit island community off the coast of Maine, Neptune unfolds around a tragic loss and Hannah Newcombe's budding struggle for independence as a young woman. The rocky coastline forms a breathtakingly beautiful backdrop for this quite yet suspenseful story.

This film has some really fantastic cinematography and the shots of the coastline during golden hour left me breathless. In fact the more I reflect on the movie as a whole, the more I keep coming back to that thin line where ocean meets the rocky coast. If you've ever swam near such a shoreline you know that there is a serene beauty to floating amongst gently rolling waves, however those same gentle waves can seem terrifying when you suddenly find yourself too close to the rocks. Neptune is filled with a similar quiet tranquility, yet there is also an undeniable undertow of tension and suspense.

There is a clear reverence not just for the place, but for it's people too. In any tight-knit community the boundaries and labels of modern living get blurred by familiarity and interdependence. Lines between good and bad, cruel and generous, funny and heartless are hard to pin down. Even the rather tyrannical cleric and foster father Jerry Cook (played by Tony Reilly) winds up to be a bit more Willie Loman-esque than outright unlikable. That said, the one thing which kept this from being a full 10 stars for me is that there are moments where several of the characters appear to have been pressed into dramatic service, filling conflicting roles over the course of the film without a clear evolution in their personality which would motivate such an alteration in their actions.

If you enjoy quiet and subtle films which unfold in a gorgeous setting then Neptune is definitely worth checking out.

If you ever saw Eraserhead, this is it without the taboo but with better scenery. It keeps your attention till the end by using hooks that, when you get to the end, make little conclusive sense. Good acting, but someone is to blame for the screenplay and disappointing ending. This is a film only the pretentious could enjoy.

The young protagonist is stunning in her frankness and poetic meter. The supporting actors are all believable, from her adopting father to the mean-spirited seventh grader who taunts her to her wounded surrogate father to the free-spirited woman on the island. I have lived in Maine, but this is a side of Down Easters I never saw. Maybe I wasn't looking close enough. The Christianity displayed by the protag is in stark contrast to that which is the more established version, and I can't thank the writers enough for their candid approach to this important matter. Christ isn't dead in those whose hearts are pure, the film screams, only in those who use God for their own purposes.

A nice looking movie with a seriously creepy vibe. It's sometimes uncomfortable to watch. There is this overall sense that something is going to happen - and then nothing happens. In the end it seems pretty pointless. There are so many small hints of something interesting going on and none of them are followed up on.