Review of Thelma

This is a tricky one. It has a lot of open ended possibilities, and some scenes that you might not know how to feel about. You have to decide what stance you want to take. The story follows a young girl at university trying to fit in and make friends. At the same time, you start to find out she has some kind of powers to make things happen. Once you learn that, you can't be sure if anything happens because people made a choice, or if Thelma willed it. She hooks up with a close friend and they develop romantic feelings, but you will never know for sure if the other girl only liked Thelma because she was influenced by her mind control. We find out that she killed her infant brother when he was a baby, and she ends up killing her dad, but the way it plays out, it kind of seems like it was a necessary step for Thelma to move on with her life. Then, the ending seems nice enough, as she is back with her girlfriend, but you still don't know if her powers are under control, or if she is getting what she wants all the time now. I personally liked it; I sympathized with her and wanted to see her happy, so I thought the ending seemed sweet. Still, when you think back, you really can't be sure.