I loved it!

Rating: Null/10 (13 February 2010)

Yes, this review definitely contains spoilers, so please don't read on if you haven't yet seen this movie.
Orphan is a spectacular, incredible, awesome movie. When I first saw the trailer of it, I kind of knew that I would probably want it. Now, it's really not like me to go and buy movies without first watching them just to see how they would be, but this movie was pretty amazing. I absolutely love pretty much everything about Orphan. I thought of Esther as just an evil little girl doing terrible things. Yes, she seemed to be a child committing vicious crimes, but I really didn't think much of it, never thought that there could have been more to it, as I was sure there were certain other cases with other young children doing those types of crazy things as well. The tag line did say, "You'll never guess her secret," so I knew that there may have been a little bit more to her than just being an evil little girl. But I NEVER would have guessed that she was actually a grown woman with dwarfism. I never would have guessed that at all. I at first thought the twist was a little unreal and ridiculous, but I've grown used to it and actually kind of liked it. Before the twist came, I thought that maybe she was something evil or supernatural, especially hearing in the trailer when Kate said that the orphanage she supposedly came from had never heard of her. I also looked at this movie more as a horror film than a psychological thriller. There were lots of signs that Esther may have been grown, like her knowledge about the F word in terms of sex, the way she handled that gun, and the castration threat she made to Daniel. I must say that when she held that gun to little Max's head, I thought, "Oh my God, she is freaking crazy!" But I thought Esther was just a very mature nine-year-old, really precocious beyond her years. And being that young, she could have been from a country where she might have been exposed to things that were way more mature. And I also kind of knew that Esther would try and seduce John sometime in the movie, even though she was supposedly a child. Even though John may have cheated once, I knew he wouldn't try to get with a "child." She seriously does have a mental problem, because anyone would know darn well that a person might not always have been able to seduce a married man. There was no reason for her to get so upset over it when he turned her down. I also thought the little girl Max was incredibly beautiful and adorable. I also thought Dr. Browning was a total idiot as a psychiatrist, incredibly stupid. And I could not stand John. He really got on my nerves and annoyed me. He ignored completely every sign that Esther was some serious trouble. And it really did annoy me that he had to cheat on Kate. I am in no way trying to sound biased or stereotypical, but stupid men would find any freaking reason to want to cheat, and it just gets on my freaking nerves very badly. I also thought Vera Farmiga's acting could have been a lot better in the movie. I expected a more shock and terrified reaction when she saw John lying on the floor stabbed to death and a whole lot of blood around him. I knew she was sedated with some kind of drug, but still. But I certainly thought Isabelle Fuhrman did a WONDERFUL job. She is a great actress and may just have a wonderful future and marvelous career ahead of her. I loved this movie very much and thought it was incredibly great. Even though it would have been better with the earlier drafts of the script I read about on IMDb, this movie was awesome nevertheless. Yes, it would have made the story more amazing and wonderfully real if Esther indeed was molested by her father, which got her some sexual knowledge at a very early age, and her thing for trying to hit on married men who were her adoptive fathers. The other drafts were great too, such as Esther being a grown-up prostitute for years, and then faking being a child to get her to stay out of prison, or the fact that she was disgusted with her dwarfism: being an adult trapped inside a child's body, but not as good as the first one I read. This movie was wonderful and amazing, and I give it ten stars. I loved it!!