There's Jesus, for a start.
Then both her parents, once they had got their acts together.
And Lauren, after a token strop at the prospect of sharing a room.
I agree with the other comments about the lack of drama and the longueurs of Lucy walking about and looking into the camera.
Nothing much actually seems to happen. And are we expected to believe that Ben had sex with Lauren?
Once they got their act together? They were TERRIBLE parents. Lucy must have FELT like neither loved her at all.
The point with Lauren is that they find solace in each other because they both feel so unloved.
Why is it hard to believe that Ben had sex with Lauren?
If I have to tell you again, we're gonna take it outside and I'm gonna show you what it's like!
Jesus watched her get beaten by her dad. To be fair, Jesus wasn't any more loving than we were as an audience. Watching what happens, but doing little to change it.
What gave you the idea that the parents ever got their acts together? After the dad's abusive behaviour he isn't about to get custody back and the mum isn't prepared to take on the responsibility either.
That Lauren is her best friend is precisely the point. She's being given no decent role models and the only available friends are even more troubled than she is. Her friend Lauren is involved in substance abuse and is raped by one of the carers and from what we can tell, her future might not be so different.
We not just expected to believe that Ben had sex with Lauren. We see him come into the room late at night and get into her bed. What did you think they were doing? Cuddling?
There's Jesus, for a start
There's Jesus, for a start
*sigh*
In this case, Jesus works, not because he's an intervening deity, but because his image, and Mary's image, and the First Communion scene, are real, spiritually-sustaining elements in Lucy's psyche. That's why when the social worker tells her that Jesus, along with other gods, is cool, Lucy gives us one of the very few smiles in this long and dreary film.
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