Title: Brilliant Storytelling
Product review: Within three days of seeing this film for the first time, I watched it twice more. It captivated me that much. The subject matter is heavy but the story is not a parable; it does a fantastic job of not dictating a lesson learned or creating archtypes of heroes and villains. The story is presented nonlinearly but not in a gimmicky way, focusing on five phases of the protagonist, Eva's (Tilda Swinton) life. It abandons the typical escalating-events-that-crescendo-into-a-specific-climax type storytelling; one that traditionally would spoil the movie after the first viewing or reading about the ending. The quality of this movie doesn't rely on the nature of its subject matter.
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