A simple unhappy story

Rating: 6/10 (12 February 2008)

As we know impubescent children, mainly girls, tend to be mythomaniac in what concerns sexuality mainly when moved by scenes that they watch and whose meaning they don't understand or feel fully, considering his age and the absence yet of any sexual urge. This is aggravated when someone they love is involved. Then they can be led to lie and arrive to convince themselves they are telling the truth. In this movie a small girl accuses falsely a man she loves of raping a friend moved by this kind of feelings and with that she ruins her life and the lives of his elder sister and his lover, the man whom she accuses. The story is rather simple, very simply told and not original enough to deserve a high mark. However the movie is well made and worth to be seen mainly by the acting of all three main characters involved in that tragic story. The atonement suffered by the young girl develops itself through her whole life and ends in a remarkable and moving scene (the last one of the movie) in a very original way that one which makes us to wonder where reality ends and fiction begins.