Only great idiot can recommend to watch it with children!!!! Watching this movie by kids will cause deep shock and stress, and in some cases your children may need psychotherapy help. Actually such movies must be banned, cause they are provoking, and raising the level of sexual crimes, with that such content are great danger for the world. Some people can take this movie too literally and make same crimes in a real life. Please take care of your family, your mind and prevent watching this movie with children. We can't act like if it's in a movie then it's OK. It's greatly wrong. Also such movies are great danger for women and girls, who can be victims of sexual crimes committed by people after watching this or such movies. People in the whole world must realize all the danger. Today it's fictional - tomorrow it's real.
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Good Movie, much better then the 3 rating it has here.
marbleann17 October 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Ignore that 3 rating. I am pretty tough on movies and this one was very good. OK the movie looked like it had a budget of 99.99, but it wasn't that bad. Netflix is a great place for lost movies. I decided to watch it because I thought it was about swimming and I love swimming. The movie is not really about swimming though.
First off the actress who played the main role Ariel did not have a body of a swimmer. And her training was something to be desired, so big deal, Sylvester Stallone was not a heavyweight when he played Rocky. He looked like he might of been a middleweight if that.
The important thing is the actor is good, And she was. I liked that it was a middle class black family. Like my family her father was a cop. None of that hoodlum stuff black people are stereotyped in so many movies. Believe it or not there is a whole bunch of us out there who have 2 parents who love each other and their children with high aspirations for them with jobs and nice houses and do not hang with hoodlums. In this movie the main actress wanted to make the Olympic swimming team. Everything was going well until one day she was raped. The person who raped her I will not tell but as soon as you see him you know. Like a guy at the end said you see a snake you know it. This mutant took everything she was happy about in her life and made it dirty. She had a boyfriend who she never had sex with, but this bastard took that away. He had no idea what was going on because she was threatened and would not tell. Her swim coach had a idea and blamed the boyfriend for a second. This girls life spirals out of control. She doesn't do the movie thing and start taking drugs or becomes a hoochie girl, She just retreats into her world of anger. To make things even worse the mutant comes back every once in a while, so his threats ring true. Not only that he has raped other young girls.
There is very interesting side story about how a co worker of the rapist is very angry about how he minimizes what a rapist does so he is on to him right away but no one would listen.
Finally one of his victims tells and everybody is after this guy, including her parents, the coach, the main character parents and some of other people. They were all gunning for him. I am not going to tell the end. But I will tell it was not a typical American movie ending when everything is decided and put in a neat little box. I never heard of any of the actors in this movie but they were for the most part very good.
There was a section of the movie I felt was just put in at the last second, where the mother talks about her being raped and basically she helps other rape victims. It was a bad acting moment by the actress who played the mother. It was almost a soliloquy gone wrong. What I got out of that is knowing this is what her mother does for a living and her father being a cop she would be more likely to tell and why didn't her mother figure out what was wrong with her before the coach?
But I liked this movie and I would recommend this to anybody. The lead actress really makes you feel for her. I think what helps is that she is not some picture perfect model. She was no means ugly but she looked like your average young teenager. She had a normal life a nice girl a person people could relate to and something terrible happens to her. Very striking and sad movie.
But take a look because it is was a lot better then most of the junk with big budgets you see out there. I want to add that the rape scenes are partially graphic, but no nudity, you just know what is happening. Nothing gratuitous. But she is brutally attacked and nothing can make that look OK. But not in a way you would forbid your children from watching I think it is a good movie for the whole family to watch together.
First off the actress who played the main role Ariel did not have a body of a swimmer. And her training was something to be desired, so big deal, Sylvester Stallone was not a heavyweight when he played Rocky. He looked like he might of been a middleweight if that.
The important thing is the actor is good, And she was. I liked that it was a middle class black family. Like my family her father was a cop. None of that hoodlum stuff black people are stereotyped in so many movies. Believe it or not there is a whole bunch of us out there who have 2 parents who love each other and their children with high aspirations for them with jobs and nice houses and do not hang with hoodlums. In this movie the main actress wanted to make the Olympic swimming team. Everything was going well until one day she was raped. The person who raped her I will not tell but as soon as you see him you know. Like a guy at the end said you see a snake you know it. This mutant took everything she was happy about in her life and made it dirty. She had a boyfriend who she never had sex with, but this bastard took that away. He had no idea what was going on because she was threatened and would not tell. Her swim coach had a idea and blamed the boyfriend for a second. This girls life spirals out of control. She doesn't do the movie thing and start taking drugs or becomes a hoochie girl, She just retreats into her world of anger. To make things even worse the mutant comes back every once in a while, so his threats ring true. Not only that he has raped other young girls.
There is very interesting side story about how a co worker of the rapist is very angry about how he minimizes what a rapist does so he is on to him right away but no one would listen.
Finally one of his victims tells and everybody is after this guy, including her parents, the coach, the main character parents and some of other people. They were all gunning for him. I am not going to tell the end. But I will tell it was not a typical American movie ending when everything is decided and put in a neat little box. I never heard of any of the actors in this movie but they were for the most part very good.
There was a section of the movie I felt was just put in at the last second, where the mother talks about her being raped and basically she helps other rape victims. It was a bad acting moment by the actress who played the mother. It was almost a soliloquy gone wrong. What I got out of that is knowing this is what her mother does for a living and her father being a cop she would be more likely to tell and why didn't her mother figure out what was wrong with her before the coach?
But I liked this movie and I would recommend this to anybody. The lead actress really makes you feel for her. I think what helps is that she is not some picture perfect model. She was no means ugly but she looked like your average young teenager. She had a normal life a nice girl a person people could relate to and something terrible happens to her. Very striking and sad movie.
But take a look because it is was a lot better then most of the junk with big budgets you see out there. I want to add that the rape scenes are partially graphic, but no nudity, you just know what is happening. Nothing gratuitous. But she is brutally attacked and nothing can make that look OK. But not in a way you would forbid your children from watching I think it is a good movie for the whole family to watch together.
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