The film is highly engaging and presently vastly underrated. It effectively portrays the trauma of potential heterosexual love rejection. The acting is superb with believable characters. Johnny (youthful Russell Crowe) was entirely believable: a lovelorn and sympathetic youth at the same time displaying toughness and aggression. Sam's (Robert Mammone) character was of an artistically gifted but independent soul that realised it needed some root which could not be truly found in hometown or family. Lovelly Meg (Danielle Spencer) had been girlfriend firstly of Sam and subsequently of Johnny; had felt rejected by Sam's past departure and needed healing. She found herself in great difficulty in choosing between her two suitors and needed time to do so. Events also transpired to resolve these problems for an ultimately stable outcome. This outcome was tragic but also the only resolution to the otherwise unresolvable tensions arising from this heterosexual love triangle.
Review of The Crossing
