I enjoy indie films, non linear plot lines, use of flashbacks to keep you guessing as to what is happening and how it all ties together. I think the actors Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger do a good job with the acting and the film itself is very beautiful. The cold, desolate desert and poor countryside help create an atmosphere of depression, sadness and a desire to run from it all. I get the themes of forgiving, scarred people, flawed people.
**Major Plot Spoiler** Here's the problem - I know it's possible for these events to happen, I also know it's a directors right to take liberty with facts to show emotions or something else. However, how likely is it that a teenage girl will kill her adulterous mom, then hook up with the mom's lover's son, run off, have a child, run away from that, then the abandoned girl rediscovers the mother, forgives her and they all move on? It is an interesting exploration into the emotions of the characters, but if a viewer is left approaching this film as a mystery, or admiring its cinematography, then something was missing in the plot - for me, that was credibility.
**Major Plot Spoiler** Here's the problem - I know it's possible for these events to happen, I also know it's a directors right to take liberty with facts to show emotions or something else. However, how likely is it that a teenage girl will kill her adulterous mom, then hook up with the mom's lover's son, run off, have a child, run away from that, then the abandoned girl rediscovers the mother, forgives her and they all move on? It is an interesting exploration into the emotions of the characters, but if a viewer is left approaching this film as a mystery, or admiring its cinematography, then something was missing in the plot - for me, that was credibility.