Amazing acting and directing.

Rating: 10/10 (25 October 2011)

Let's just not avoid it, the story is at most average for a Sci-Fi. It's ET and alien horror hybrid. They just don't fit together. The surprise is, you just don't care!
In my opinion the story is intentionally like this, because it is only the secondary line in this film, and it's just necessary to have one. The main plot is about a bunch of children, the friendship between them, and a beautiful love story. There is a lot of personal crisis, mainly the ones that would prevent their love, and the role of the main story about the alien is just serves the good environment for their character development.
The characters, their story, and the acting is just beautiful, and the directing makes it even better! And the beautiful acting gets another twist, because they make a movie inside the movie, where they have different roles, and they play that personality through their main one... this just cannot be written down, you have to see it to understand.
Sadly the main source of negative reviews is that this film is categorized as Sci-Fi, and they concentrate about the main story line, which is secondary here. As a Sci-Fi I couldn't give 10/10, but as a film, it deserves even more, like an Oscar! This film is just the complete opposite of Skyline: That being an average-good Sci-Fi in a bad movie, while this is an average-bad Sci-Fi in an excellent movie!