Princess

awesome

This movie was disturbing to say the least. I am disappointed that my comprehension is not a little more clear. I felt that the story line could have gone two ways. First either the main character was a young woman who was sexually abused by her mother's lover. The mother felt threatened by her daughters coming of age. I think that at this point she knew that was the wrong attitude to have and maybe realized that this was because she knew that what was happening between her daughter and her lover was wrong and no longer innocent play. Secondly the main character could have been a young boy who was being sexually abused by his mother's lover. Either way the main character created the alter ego in order to cope with the traumatic things happening to her/him. In the end nothing was really resolved but I felt that some headway was made. The mother started to realize that she shouldn't be blaming her child who was being molested and that she should put the blame rightfully on her lovers head. I felt that the movie was well done but not really worth buying or watching again though I don't feel that my time was completely wasted. I just wish that the ending would have been more conclusive. Perhaps the dad almost beating the lover to within an inch of his life to gratify my need for violence. The abuse did make me very angry. Also perhaps the mother could have given her child much needed consistent affection rather than the bipolar version that the movie seemed stuck on.

Horrible movie not wht I expected

Unfortunately, much like my childhood...but I never had the courage to confront my mother. These types of things don't only happen to rednecks or third-world people. My mother was an English Professor, and taught at a University...all the time. She also had a string of hideous loser boyfriends, lovers, and an especially montrous husband; my stepfather, the molester. Yep, she looked the other way, even after I told her. Even after he was abusing animals. Only when he started hitting her, she divorced him. I also had the "absent dad". He wasn't horrible....just not interested enough to contribute and care. The ending isn't packaged up in a bow, but it does give a glimmer of hope. I also got a whiff of an undercurrent of push-back against the 'women's movement". I can't help but agree with this train of thought; how is it the "new normal" for so many children to grow up with only one parent, who can then choose alternate partners....not best suited for the child, yet best suited for him or herself at the moment? Fantastic foreign film best-suited for the deep-minded.

I thought this was extremely well done. I'm not sure but I think that its actually about a boy being abused and his starting to identify as female in order to cope, with the final casting off of the male personality in the end, or I saw one reviewer who felt that the boy is just an imaginary friend in order to cope. I personally thought it was boy who begins to identify as female due to the abuse. Either way it makes you think, and I will probably have to watch this again to try and figure it out lol.

What you get here is a very strange family. Mom turns a blind eye. Boyfriend is molesting the daughter. Daughter is doing bad in school, smoking, etc. Trying to get attention from the Mother for help but it never really comes. Mix that in with a weird story line of a boy who kind of looks like her who comes to live with them for a while. I think the director was trying to get a point of it being split personalities with the kid and 2 actual people. It became muddled and unnecessary throughout the movie. The main girl does look like Chloe Grace Moretz if you like her work.

A film that depicts an all too frequent occurrence. For the past twenty years the pediatric medical literature has been reporting that the nonbiological parent (stepfathers, boyfriends of the biological mother, etc.) present the greatest risk for abuse of the children. This not a secret and is well known by pediatricians who may see the children to treat them for injuries incurred secondary to the abuse and by family therapists. The abused child that is unable to physically escape or get protection from the adults they depend on and love - usually the mother- may resort to psychologically numbing themselves from the pain by escaping into a fantasy. Similar to what cutters do to break up the dysphoria (depression) they are feeling. Kudos to the film makers for shedding light on a common, horrific, societal problem.

Not worth the money

Excellent movie, great quality. Thanks.