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Title: Pointlessly depressing
Review: This film could have been almost acceptable as a tragedy, if there was a point to all the suffering. There wasn't. It could have been a kid's adventure move if the characters had been written to see anything remotely amazing or grow in any more meaningful way. Not so. It could have been a morality play if characters' intentional actions were linked to consequences. They weren't.As it is, the film is a vile protracted trudge through pointless suffering, punctuated by fleeting and insipid moments of sad fantasy by doomed characters. No good deed goes unpunished; all opportunities for growth are resolved in dime novel or mean-spirited fashions.If you love suffering, guilt, shame, futility, and incompetence set in an uncaring and malevolent universe, this is the film for you.I'm still retching.(As a postscript, the two young actors were excellent in this otherwise waste of an effort).
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