Yeah this is not some tear jerking movie that is sad and dark and that makes you cry and next day you wake up, and the only thing you feel is a little sadness for the character who died and a good global feeling about the movie because it feels good to have a good cry sometimes.
No. This is a movie that will make you feel sick to the point of trowing up, that will haunt your nights, that will make you feel extra cautious when you see children going to school (is there one that looks depressed?...what are thoses bruises coming from?), that might make you wanna hug your own children or siblings or little cousins and feel a overprotective toward them for a while.
Personnally, I didn't know anything about that case before watching the movie, and knowing that the facts are much worse than the adaptation, I'm afraid to read papers about it, and even afraid to watch this movie again.
There is really a few movies that made me feel that sick. No, actually this might be the one.
But just one thing about the movie, regardless of the true story (spoilers in white) : I felt really weird during the bath scene...I mean how old is that young actor ? That man is actually caressing him ! I know it's a movie, and it's all acting, but...do children really make a difference at this age ? I mean, unless he's his father and he told him he was washing him (and even that would still be really, really weird), that is actual molesting, isn't it ? And there is this other scene when you can clearly see the man sex, really near that little girl...I mean, ok, the case is shocking, so the movie had to be shocking, but, I always have this weird feeling when there are "dark" scenes involving young children, like babies in horror movies, and such...here we have actual rape scenes, acted by children...what kind of memory will they have of those shooting ?
