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"Unspeakable" was a taut film with 47 minutes of effective domestic drama. A family crisis arises when Jo receives an anonymous text that her live-in boyfriend Danny may have done something "inappropriate." What follows in Jo's attempt to find answers.

A theme that the filmmakers are exploring is the danger of a witch hunt when unsubstantiated allegations are made. Indeed, there is a ripple effect felt across the family due to a single text message.

It does not appear that a crime had been committed in this household. And yet, by the end, the family may never be the same. A false hint about the "unspeakable" eventually turned into a family "shattered."

I am SO TIRED of movies and series that have no satisfying conclusion, they just stop. This seems to be a trend and it seems like lazy storytelling. Why develop a plot, establish characters and make the audience relate to them and care about them, if there is no ending to the story? Why deliberately frustrate viewers by denying them any sense of completion? That being said, Indira Varma is a treasure and I would watch her stand motionless in an empty room, so this otherwise disappointing film does have her going for it. Actually all of the actors gave excellent performances - it's just a shame the material they were given to work with was so unsatisfying.

Unspeakable tackles the subject of suspected child abuse. Jo (Indira Varma) has two children including 11 year old Katie. She has split up with her husband. She has found love with dishy nurse Danny (Luke Treadaway) who is younger than her and he has moved into their home.

Jo's life unravels over the course of a couple of days as she receives anonymous texts insinuating something is going on with Danny and Katie. Suddenly Jo's mind questions everything about Danny.

I thought the drama started well but petered out and by the end it was rather pointless. I can understand Jo being beside herself with suspicion, maybe Danny had an ulterior motive for going with an older woman.

However when she rings a confidential helpline, I was taken out of the drama. That conversation had to be one of the worse scripted pieces I have seen this year. 'Oh he works as a nurse, that means he gets access to children at work as well!'

Of course there was another explanation which the drama was reluctant to explore, that the text was from a troll or someone jealous of Jo and Danny's relationship which we later get a hint of.

To save your time. The dad makes the whole thing up by sending a text of false allegations to the mother of the 11 year old, saying that something is going on with her daughter and the mothers (she's 44, dk his age) boyfriend. No ab*se happens and nothing goes on between the 11 year old and any man/boy. You barley even see the daughter in the movie, just a bunch of scenes with the mums bad acting and her face looking like a slapped a**. You even get annoyed with how unseriously the mum takes the situation and potentially puts her daughter in danger. You want the kind of movie that you probably came for, then watch 'B*stard out of Carolina'.

Very poor acting too!

Not even anything educational, there's not even a build up, it's very slow and a waste of time.

They packed a lot into this short. As someone else pointed out, it was a obviously written by men.

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I'm not going to fault the story for that, because I am for not jumping to conclusions. Much as I hate child molestation, I am also very convinced that some men have been falsely accused, not necessarily by children but a lot of times by vindictive, women, especially in child custody cases.

So I do like the fact that she was somewhat measured in her response, but very concerned about her child and, perhaps, part of her concern was finding out something she didn't want to know. It wasn't completely clear that she was concerned about possibly making a false accusation and totally ruining this man's life.

You hope she goes back and tells her friend that this was not true and the friend keeps her mouth shut.

The relationship is broken now because, well, the dad had some great points. She's brought an unknown man into her home with two young children and their young daughter who's going to be growing up within the home.

Whether or not their relationship could be salvaged, he definitely should move out. She'll never look at him and he'll never look at the daughter the same ever again.

I do believe he should not hold her question against her, because he should understand how a parent would feel getting that message and that she should not have not asked the question in deference to him, but in support of making sure her child was safe.