Wanted to enjoy this film and it has its moments - but, despite the excuse of having an angry father, Alex is the most repressed, odious, pathetic, unempathetic, bland, and selfish human ever to be a lead character!! Even when he discovers many years later that his father had secretly made him a beautifully hand-crafted guitar for Christmas, which he never gave Alex, he still remains insensitive to his father's anger-management problems! Not even showing half of one redeeming feature throughout the entire film!! This lack of character-realism virtuly renders the entire film a pointless exercise!