Masterpiece

10/10

Post-modernist feminism - a young women's emotional sensitivity is heightened when her mother dies. Not yet ready to confront her inner pain, she assumes a sexualized, blistering persona which enables her explore the world in a way that most "average" women, including her mother and sister, had never done before. She places herself at risk for utter alienation and rape and death, simply because her mother died and her sister has a life she envies. Lost in her confusion and pain, and ignored and ridiculed and used by her friends and boyfriend and sister and everyone else around her, her inner journey brings her to the bring of destruction.

Samantha Morton's portrayal was heartbreakingly realistic and pyrotechnic .The minimalistic dialogue and art direction and camera work and music brilliantly served as narrative to move the formulaic plot forward.

In the same vein as Stella Does Tricks and Morvern Callar