Trust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhufUDjSKyQ

Before sitting down to watch Trust I expected it to be little more than Taken this time with Clive Owen playing the Dad out for vengeance. All I knew of the film was that it was about a young teenage girl who is sexually abused and based on a poster I saw in which Owen is holding a gun I assumed it would involve Owen running around and laying waste to pedophiles.

The actual film couldn't be more different, it's a truly gripping and exceptional piece of cinema which features one of the finest performances in many years. Liana Liberato is exception as the daughter in what is a very brave role.

It's a very hard film to watch as it never tries to simplify matters. It's quite easy to imagine just how melodramatic and dumbed down the film could have wound up but Schwimmer makes some very brave decisions in the way the film plays out.

krudler

looks pretty good must give it a watch cheers

krudler

krudler wrote: »

looks pretty good must give it a watch cheers

It's excellent, I was genuinely shocked by just how good it is. It's also a very brave film,

in that the rape is not the worst thing to happen the girl as she genuinely believed he loved her.

Sad Professor

This is good? Really? Because the US trailer I saw for this a while ago was utterly horrid. I know, just a trailer, etc, but it left an overwhelmingly bad impression on me. Even putting the marketing aside, the plot stinks of clichéd message movie about the dangers of the internet.

I'd be more interested if you said it was like Taken, at least then I'd know it wasn't meant to be taken seriously and might be entertaining. Clive Owen laying waste to pedophiles sounds pretty good to me. But as a serious drama about internet predators, this it looks and sounds like an American tv-movie-of-the-week.

Sad Professor

Sad Professor wrote: »

This is good? Really? Because the US trailer I saw for this a while ago was utterly horrid. I know, just a trailer, etc, but it left an overwhelmingly bad impression on me. Even putting the marketing aside, the plot stinks of clichéd message movie about the dangers of the internet.

I'd be more interested if you said it was like Taken, at least then I'd know it wasn't meant to be taken seriously and might be entertaining. Clive Owen laying waste to pedophiles sounds pretty good to me. But as a serious drama about internet predators, this it looks and sounds like an American tv-movie-of-the-week.

It's very much the exact opposite to all that. I expected TV film of the week melodrama, where it preached of how our children are at the mercy of predators and used cliche after cliche to drive home the point.

It's a very adult and brave film. It could so easily have been dumbed down to tale a simplistic and narrow story but it never tries to preach or imply that the internet is evil, it's more concerned with the story of the girl and how the meeting affects her life and that of her family.