★★★ Today successful, the survivor of a massacre in a secondary school faces that fact again. There are dark spots in what happened then, and the woman of today (a more than correct Mila Kunis) has to reevaluate choices at a limit moment. The film is “common”: there is nothing that stands out and somehow it appeals to a certain transparency, to the story and the actor above the staging. But it is based on a novel that unfolds another matter: resentment as a motor or as a brake. Because our woman/victim has also been a victim of other things, and the film tries to show the moral ambiguity. If he doesn’t quite achieve it, it’s because he falls in love with words to describe what images can achieve by themselves. The girl… suffers from the evil of the century: not trusting the viewer and forcing him to think one -and only one- thing.
