I watched this movie, because I enjoyed the director's "Tall Man". Someone reviewing that film mentioned this one, saying, that it contained social comment, as did "Tall Man". The first part of this movie seemed gritty and quite realistic, and I could empathize with the characters, who were abused children. The second part of the movie (it has three distinct parts) begins with a shocking scene, which I felt totally morally bankrupted the film, as the abused girl kills children, the children of her abusers. Maybe it's just me, but I have a hard time believing someone tortured as a child and still in great pain from it, would coldly murder other children. In any case, this second section is more standard "horror movie" fare, and I lost my empathy for the main character, as an abused child. The second main character alone survives until the third section. Here she is accosted and tortured graphically for a long period of time. At this point, as I did with "Funny Games", I'm asking myself, "Why are the film-makers showing me this?" I am not entertained by watching people suffer, unless there is some redeeming, meaningful reason for showing this. Unfortunately, I could not find one here. A gang of insane, old, rich, white people babbling some quasi-metaphysical nonsense AIN'T a reason. Crazy people will commit any manner of atrocity, but it won't make any sense and I don't need to watch it. Thank God, this director got a little more realistic for his next feature. If you want to show children being tortured, you better have a hell of a good reason for it. The last two thirds of this film just left me empty. Amazingly, I didn't even feel for the girl, who gets tortured in the last third. That's how meaningless this scene was. I saw a reason why Hanaeke was showing me pain in "Funny Games" (that I, as an audience member was a voyeur) and Noe's "Irreversible", showed me the truly sickening nature of real, out-of-control violence. I felt the violence in those films was justified. Here, I could find no justification.