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Nerissa Radulescu says...

The big dilemma of this movie is the way events were viewed from impossible perspectives.



Form the perspective of a couple obsessed by killing their own child, the viewer could easily imagine a scenario of drug-induced psychosis, particularly when the two adults concerted the effort of committing crime with no remorse. That is followed by a gruesome murder of two adults by a minor who sounded too fragile to cause such upheaval. Then, another perspective rises that makes no sense. A social worker is struck with acute psychosis and illusion that led him to fight illusive insects to death. Thereafter, a fourth and unexplained suicide occurs from an entirely rational detective in his way to commit murder of the mysterious adopted foster girl.



While the viewer attempts to link bizarre and separate crimes, the incarcerated father is struck with similar acute psychosis that led him to murder an inmate during dining. After the theater is emptied from many participants by the strange and unexplained death, the social worker who volunteered to host the traumatized foster girl was next in getting inflicted with acute psychotic illusion.



As if all social workers and detectives have shared a contagious psychotic illness. By the time the viewer might have been led to believe that the foster girl was such a menace to society or was behind all mysterious deaths, events lead to the disturbed state of minds of many adults, not just one or two, or three. Thus, the child appears closer and closer to real, innocent, and helpless child in the face of disturbed psychotic adults, who appeared normal and sane actors all along, but suddenly exposed unexpected twist of insanity.



In any event, the movie exposes the constant struggle of the human mind to maintain balance among such heinous and shocking traits of lethal aggression.

Posted on December 1, 2010