Product: The Dead Girl (2006)
Rating: 5.0
This film was excellent
Short Attention Summary Span:1. There is a girl who is found dead by a caretaker. It turns out that the caretaker has an abusive mother, and finding the dead girl is a catalyst for her moving out and starting her own life.2. It was initially thought by a family that the dead girl was their own (long missing daughter). It turned out to not be-- but this was not enough to stop the surviving daughter from bringing closure to a long and painful ordeal.3. From there, we move to an unhappily married husband and wife. The husband disappears for long periods of time with no explanations. It happens just by chance one day that the wife finds that the husband is killer by fortuitous discovery of the evidence that he has kept for his crimes. She does not report him to the police and burns the evidence.4. The movie then goes into the mother (of the murdered girl) going back and finding out what kind of life her daughter lived-- and what drover her away from home. Along the way, she finds that the daughter had a child-- that she decides to keep.5. Finally, we get to see the events leading up to the death of the girl (her life as a prostitute) and it is proved that the man that we saw earlier was indeed the killer.Comments:This was a brilliant film. Brillant writing and brilliant acting.1. There were several plots and several resolutions, but they were introduced one at a time. Many movies that have several subplots make the resolutions all at once in the end. But these resolutions were made at the end of every vignette and that made for a refreshing change.2. The film was obviously lower budget, but the acting and writing made up for that. (This is as opposed to a lot of films that have a high budget that can't cover up a crappy plot.)3. There were a lot of unresolved elements-- which was somewhat unsatisfying. But on the other hand, the fact that these existed prevented the movie from being hackneyed.4. The acting was generally very strong and the characters were well cast and very believable.This is worth an evening movie ticket.