Innocence Lost

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2009)

How can we define ourselves without love? How can we actually understand or communicate fully with other human beings without sacrifice? It is in this film that we come to understand the price we pay for love and how it can ruin our lives, robbing us of all other goals and ambitions- bringing us to our knees. Tristan, the bad boy, the troubled soul-the favourite son, how can we define him in such simple terms? How can we ever truly comprehend the emotions he feels during this movie and how his emotions destroy he and his family. This film explores so many kinds of love, so many kinds of loss. In it we find a group of characters who must deal with tragedy, all consuming love and the desire for true happiness.