I took a particular interest in this film, for my own film-making reasons. I wouldn't recommend this film to any one that feels enthusiasm for the acting ability of Renee Zellweger. In this film I found myself between points of wanting to fall asleep and run out of the theater. The premise sounds simple enough, but means and imagery of which it is told is shocking and deserves a look. Some shots in the film linger for painfully long moments and the nonprofessional acting is so bad that it takes you out of the story, but in the end the landscape, characters and nature are well worth the ride. The film, for me, existed in less than half of the scenes it contained, but these carried so much weight and rawness that it made up for the other flaws. The following hours and days preceding the film I was left with images from the film rather than a one general emotion that was conveyed. These images, of course, contained there own complexities of which I feel I was given the freedom to make my own judgments of.
