I'm confused by this movie.
I felt that we missed a great deal of the drama by skipping their teenage years and their mothers death.
If we take the movie at face value it suggests that they didnt sexualise their 'relationship' until after their mother died (why only then?). Then Thomas's father moves out and leaves them to it.
What I dont understand is is Thomas's father aware that they are now in a sexual relationship? Is he fine with this? (it's kind of implied that he's aware and that he doesnt seem to object). Are their friends aware?
Also, before the mother died... how where they with each other? Again I feel like we missed an integral part of the story here. It seems a bit odd that one day they just decide 'lets have sex' in the way it was shown on screen. It wasnt in the heat of the moment, it was like they were accepting an inevitablity and just giving in to it.
What we got was like some sort of fairytale with all the angst/drama removed.
Their teenage years had to have been more interesting!