Before my viewing, I took a look at some of the reviews for Pure and discovered that they are truly polarized: people either really like it or really dislike it. As someone with a background in classical music, I thought that I might be let down by this film, but in fact the music merely serves as a backdrop and is not a theme. This is a genre obsession thriller set in a classical music context.
There are plenty of themes woven together here with questions about nature vs. nurture, economic class divisions, and the attractive power of success. The main protagonist is a young woman who despite having been around the block still retains something pure about her, hence I suppose the name. She wants to be more than what her mother became (a recovering drug addict who attempts suicide), even though she seems to share some of her psychological issues. The suggestion is repeatedly made that the daughter may have been severely mistreated by her mother or perhaps sexually abused by someone at a young age, but it is never made clear what precisely precipitated her involvement with social services.
All in all, I enjoyed this film. No need to watch it again, but aside from some very shaky camera work, I thought that Pure was fairly well done.
There are plenty of themes woven together here with questions about nature vs. nurture, economic class divisions, and the attractive power of success. The main protagonist is a young woman who despite having been around the block still retains something pure about her, hence I suppose the name. She wants to be more than what her mother became (a recovering drug addict who attempts suicide), even though she seems to share some of her psychological issues. The suggestion is repeatedly made that the daughter may have been severely mistreated by her mother or perhaps sexually abused by someone at a young age, but it is never made clear what precisely precipitated her involvement with social services.
All in all, I enjoyed this film. No need to watch it again, but aside from some very shaky camera work, I thought that Pure was fairly well done.