What do you think?

True, but we don't really get to see how she came to be the person she was. I mean, yes, she is bitter and is trying to forget her past, but it would have been interesting to see where she went once she left her parents home. Did she continue swimming?

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I felt in some ways this movie was almost more painful than the book. though the book gives us a better insight into their misery, I just couldn't stop crying when they took away her traumatized little brother and he grew up to become a drug addict and dying of an overdose. And the her pain when she realized her mother was dead and she had missed it, left her to die alone.

This was a pretty powerful film. I like that it didn't follow the exact story in the book, but I felt it was too short and could have showed us more from her life.

I'm not sure what powerful would mean here, so I won't comment on this. But I liked the movie. The point? Probably depends on the viewer. For me personally the point that struck me the most came at the end - Leena's reaction to her mother's death.

It was a painful movie to watch. I was kind of angry at the parents, but as somebody said, it was difficult to hate them. They kind of tried, but it wasn't enough. Leena's reaction while meeting her mother, one of hurt and anger, seemed natural to me, I expected her negative emotions to be even stronger. Her reaction to the death of her mother was a surprise to me, but that's probably because I am a person I am. I would hold the mother responsible for the death of Leena's brother. She should not tolerate behaviour of her husband.