This film tells a powerful story with characters that you care about and a plot that seems genuine and original in many aspects. But this film is terribly flawed. On the positive side, the plot points of this story are well laid out and the narrative (for the most part) flows well, drawing the viewer along on a story that outclasses most of the indie films that I've seen. However this film has some VERY serious negatives. First the dialogue is very poorly written with characters saying things that seem unnatural and at times unmotivated. I am generally ready to willingly suspend disbelief when I'm watching a film but the dialogue in this film was so jarringly bad that my sense of reality kept kicking in which disturbed my enjoyment of the film and distracted me from the more important elements of the film. Finally, the ending scene is wonderful but the director and the writer should have thought more about how to get there without the strange departures from motivated behavior that came before.
On balance, I think that this film is powerful and tells an important story but I will be hard pressed to recommend it to friends unless they can be very tolerant of the truly amateurish elements of the film.
On balance, I think that this film is powerful and tells an important story but I will be hard pressed to recommend it to friends unless they can be very tolerant of the truly amateurish elements of the film.