So bothered by this movie...Grrr....i like it!!

I agree. It was an experience, to say the least. No banal sentimentality. No formulamatic Hollywood cliches. I loved it.
It's a perfect example of what makes Tilda Swinton a brilliant actress.

It bothered me too, during the second half. I adored it up til then, then I just dealt with it.

A movie that i didnt plan so see. But somehow it ended up on my TV. Holy Tilda. This is good - special.

You list the boy as the first in your list of things about the film that absorbed you. Can I ask why? I was stunned by the fact that he could have been replaced by a porcelain doll or a piece of furniture and the entire film would have played out exactly the same. I'm not commenting on the acting chops of the actor, but on the role. He is an object, she treats him like an object, and he REACTS like an object. There are only 1 or 2 rare moments where he reveals that he might actually be a real human boy (when he says that she scares him in the bathroom, and when he asks why she used a gun if she was just going to take him to see his mom). The rest of the time, he might as well be carved out of wood. Mechanically drug him and he just falls asleep, tie him up and leave him behind a couch for a day and he won't even complain when he gets up. He won't ever try to run or escape. He won't shout for help. He doesn't have to be bargained with. He certainly doesn't have the irrational runaway emotional fits of a normal child. Or the emotional needs for affection and safety of a normal child. Or the intellectual capacity to observe and question his surroundings like a normal child. Or the need to eat and drink water more than once every few days like a normal child. In short, there is very, very little in the film to suggest that he is actually human.