It is much worse when a heart surgeon messes up than when an accountant messes up.
If you want to deal with other people's sensitive issues you better be qualified for the task, or you will end up in a really awful mess.
Bridgend has beautiful images and sound, good actors that seem to have been directed well. All that does, is polish up something that is fundamentally flawed.
Word of advise to writer: The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so 1) get better at understanding other people's experience, or 2) write about something less sensitive or something much closer to your own personal experience*, or 3) let other people do the writing.
* Lack of experience with teenage misery, if we consider that mitigating circumstances, actually speaks to your benefit.
If you want to deal with other people's sensitive issues you better be qualified for the task, or you will end up in a really awful mess.
Bridgend has beautiful images and sound, good actors that seem to have been directed well. All that does, is polish up something that is fundamentally flawed.
Word of advise to writer: The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so 1) get better at understanding other people's experience, or 2) write about something less sensitive or something much closer to your own personal experience*, or 3) let other people do the writing.
* Lack of experience with teenage misery, if we consider that mitigating circumstances, actually speaks to your benefit.