Powerful

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2010)

I seen this film a few years ago and while i enjoyed it I didn't appreciate it as much. I watched it again recently and I was blown away by what I saw, shocked even. The story itself is so relevant and honest that it hits you hard on so many levels. Its disturbing to realise that there is such hatred in the world. Norton delivers a career defining performance as does Furlong. The rest of the cast are all solid and altogether deliver a powerful piece of cinema. At times throughout the film I had to say to myself did that really happen, is such brutality real? But beyond the violence lies a problem that has been looked at one thousand different times and we still haven't found an answer. Perhaps there never will be an answer, but what we are shown in this film doesn't need an answer, it just needs to be witnessed to be believed. A masterpiece.