Reviews

Almost until the very end, I had a pretty good attitude to the film, such a solid seven out of ten. But still, even such an amazing cast of Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam, and Kate Mara could not stretch the plot to the level that it could reach, if the screenwriter paid more attention to the motivation of the characters.

The story is interesting - brother and sister are separated on the run having a common endpoint because they need to cross the border. We are immediately shown that the relationship here is a little more than just a simple siblings relationship; they were always alone, two souls are broken by a cruel father who found solace in each other.

But the sister decided to move away from her brother and fell in love and the brother didn't like that, or rather, in this he saw the end of their great escape story.

But why in the movie, besides their relationship, we don't get to know more about others? They threw a couple of interesting stories like the police Hannah (Kate Mara), whom her father humiliates and ignores at work, where she also regularly receives a notable portion of sexism; boxer Jay (Charlie Hunnam), about which for the entire film we were given only a couple of characteristics, such as "he is a boxer" and "he was in prison." Well, and the fact that he is a good and honest guy (well, it's true even though he accidentally broke the skull of his boss).

But I can forgive all this if not for the ending. The antagonist Addison, perfectly played by Eric Bana, we understand and even empathize with him in a couple of moments, because he is humane, took care of the family that random stepfather tormented and so on. His sister (Olivia Wilde), who after one night stand fell in love with a guy and decided to leave her brother and generally become an exemplary member of society, we already understand a bit less. Boxer Jay, who, after sex with a girl (I understand that he had not had sex in prison for a long time), knowing that she is a little crazy and has a little more than just siblings ties with her brother, says that he loves her, we don't understand at all.

Well, the logic at the end suffered a bit. But an open-end? What happened to the characters, because in theory, they should all be in prison for their actions? Why didn't they give us at least a hint of what will happen? After all, if the main theme of the film was still only the relationship between brother and sister, and therefore it was all over, I do not quite understand why it was necessary to focus on the history of the boxer guy.

Be that as it may, I do not regret that I watched it - the landscapes in the movie are amazing. A picture in which all the scenes are snowy always catches a little more.

In this story, we will observe a family of four, of four children, one of whom brings up the other three. Their mother shot his father, and he is the man who broke everyone in this story, and he is the one we will never see. But we will see the consequences of his actions, which affected the children.

How it affected a boy, Harley, already more likely a man who is forced to take care of three sisters, quietly hating them for his broken future, but trying his best to provide a worthy future for them. An older sister Amber, who is so used to physical and possibly sexual abuse by her father that she wanted to be loved by her brother only the same way, intertwining the concepts of love and violence in her head. At the middle sister, Misty, who lost her humanity after the actions of her father, began to show violence to animals and felt so strong hatred for her indifferent mother that she felt only joy about her imprisonment. And on a very little girl, younger sister Jody, who might get out of this nightmare with the least mental trauma.

But this is just a brief overview of the characters. The film itself, moving at a very slow pace, will reveal to us, second after second, characters of the main characters, or rather that part of them that the already dead father has perverted.

It's hard to watch, the ending is heartbreaking and I want to scream from injustice and I feel a vicious circle. I won't talk about the acting, because in my point of view, they did an excellent job because I felt their emotions. Alex Pettyfer is especially good as an older brother, and his outward lack of emotions, behind which lies the accusing question to himself, "Why didn't I protect them?"

The movie is about the growing up of children who have survived a trauma. About the growing up of children whose trauma shaped their future.