Reviews

The point of this movie seems to be to make you feel really frustrated and desperat on behalf of the main character. This is not new. The problem is that it is so exaggerated that it's unrealistic. The main character is exposed to unbelievably unfair situations and you're suppose to believe that the other characters don't see the unfairness, but it just doesn't work. Why would you believe that the mother suddenly doesn't see the obvious manipulation by the biological father and takes his side, when she herself explaines to the main character and the viewers that he can't be trusted in any way. It's not even a situation where you really would take the bio. fathers side. If done right this feeling of frustration can work really well, but it just doesn't work. Plus the movie's kinda sexist. It seems that it's still mainstream to think that boys shouldn't hit girls, and they shouldn't, but why for the love of God should they hit other boys? And the scene I'm referring to here is not even that funny, it only concentrates around this don't-hit-girls-even-though-they-are-older,-bigger-and-extremely-mean thing. And then they say that she probably just likes him?! Is this 1960?