Wildland

I would compare watching this movie with reading a classic depressed Russian novel.

At no point is it an enjoyable experience, neither is it fun, but you're still somehow compelled to finish it, clinging on to some shred of optimism for the situation depicted.

This movie perfectly and accurately depicts the staggeringly harmful effect an abusive household has on multiple generations of children; how it sucks everyone around it into its blend of misery and insanity; how the affected finally snap under the pressure of the situation as they reach the limit of coping with their situation.

I would never watch this movie again. Neither would I recommend it to anyone else. But I will likely never forget it.

DO NOT go into this movie expecting some mafia-thriller whatever. This is a psychological piece of art, not a piece of entertainment.

Great actors but you could barely hear what they were saying because most actors were to lazy and speaking to fast. without subtitles it would have been impossible to hear what they saying. Movie could have been great with better scripting and training to speak.

Despite great actors this movie is a waste of time. A mix of a bad american tv show about violence and drugs, a bit of mafia-vibe and a lovestory.

Promising premise, and a few good actors. But the entire idea and story is lost, by a director who apparantly made a movie for herself, and not really for anyone else. Waste of time, efforts and what could have been a good story.

They say you can't choose family - as in you have a bond with them, whether you like that or not. Whereas friends - well you are able to ditch them and find new ones. Of course if you don't like a family member you can disown them or pretend they don't exist. But that is sort of a thing of perspective, because you'll always be connected somehow.

Even after death you ask? I would say yes, but that one is something you have to answer. And death is a factor that triggers the story here. Because her mother dies in the beginning of the movie, our main character has to move in with people she might not have in contact with otherwise. And who will shape and form the rest of her life too ... for better or worse. A drama that is sometimes hard to swallow, not easy to follow and something you have to allow ... to have its impact on you, with its slow moving pace and all that drama.