Was I the only person that liked this?
I have to say I was surprised so few people liked this movie. I thought the element of having a tragedy like the one at the beginning of the movie actually being the fault of one of the children was a very interesting premise for a movie and it made the whole thing work quite well. That little detail is something that is entirely possible, and probably happens all the time, but I think that for some reason its destruction of the boundaries between innocence and guilt makes it such uncomfortable subject matter that I don't think I've really seen a movie treat the matter in depth before.
I have to disagree with people who say that there's not anything going on in this movie - there's a lot going on. It's the story of the tensions within the family and within each of its individual members in the wake of that particular kind of a tragedy. No one can really blame the girl directly, but it's not the sort of situation in which there's no one to blame either - so that just leaves them with a very powerful mix of emotional energy that they don't know where to direct. So it's very interesting to see all of that play out.
And of course at the same time, life does go on, and this energy doesn't (as it wouldn't in real life) dominate the family's every action and impulse - but it does color everything they do, if only slightly. I thought this was a very sensitive and well done piece, which was also very beautifully shot.