I would have been so much happier without all the rubbish that is religion banging, crashing, looming and forcing itself on the viewer like a mangled corpse that you can't escape the stench of.
However, having said that, that is exactly what the point of the movie is about... the distortion of religion... how it forces young children to make decisions about their future opinions, thoughts and ideologies, way before they are even at an age where those decisions should be made... where nothing is left to choice, that most important of all human aspects.
How a young teenage girl must deal with a mother who's husband has left her for another woman, how she herself must deal with a father who has upped and gone, how her rather thought-provoking grandfather dies and how to deal with her first love and feelings of awakening sexuality. All very important and real aspects piling on to a young girl's life... but where she is also valiantly struggling to retain that all important 'choice.'
Interesting. I would have rated it higher except for having to sit through two sermons and listen to the wailing of communion.
However, having said that, that is exactly what the point of the movie is about... the distortion of religion... how it forces young children to make decisions about their future opinions, thoughts and ideologies, way before they are even at an age where those decisions should be made... where nothing is left to choice, that most important of all human aspects.
How a young teenage girl must deal with a mother who's husband has left her for another woman, how she herself must deal with a father who has upped and gone, how her rather thought-provoking grandfather dies and how to deal with her first love and feelings of awakening sexuality. All very important and real aspects piling on to a young girl's life... but where she is also valiantly struggling to retain that all important 'choice.'
Interesting. I would have rated it higher except for having to sit through two sermons and listen to the wailing of communion.