The Stranger

I suppose, the high dose of realism of story is its basic virtue. Second - the cinematography. A story of manipulation, use of vulnerability of a mother for destroy her connection with the only daughter.

The return of the last, after years, reveals the deep roots of lie and the importance of apparences for comunity.

The theme is not new but the acting and construction of story, especialy the last scene are the good points , implying the viewer in the story of Blake , victim of circumstances.

And exactly the status of not only fiction gives to The Stranger force of seduction . Because the price of return , the heavy loneliness and the skills of convinction - brutal in some measure, psychological in others define many relations.

Not the last, the story has the gift to be a good seed for complete story reconstruction - image about situation of viewer.