Una (2017)

If you were sexually abused as a child or teen, this movie could cause flashbacks or, in my case, downright sickness.To me it was unrealistic as to what the effects of that abuse can be--but then I realized who am I to judge how another abused child would react or behave as an adult? At the same time I cannot imagine a victim kissing her aviser.

Yes, this film is well done, thought provoking, etc., with all the deserved kudos given it, but my one problem with both this film and another, also referenced by another commenter, The Girl in the Book, is that both actresses could have and should have portrayed their younger selves. Nobody's physical appearance changes that much from teens to twenties, even into early thirties, and it's just always jarring to see a completely different actor who never looks or acts anything like their older counterpart. Rooney Mara could easily have played younger, as could the other actress in the other film, and the problem with both is that the younger actresses in both films steal so much focus that it's hard to go back to viewing the older actresses within the same story without having to consciously and constantly adjust, which, to me, anyway, ruins the flow.

The main issue I had with this movie is that it's boring. I don't mean a little boring, I mean pretty damn boring. The subject matter is highly emotive and normally such a topic would set the stage for an exciting, dramatic, even divisive experience which would be the subject of much controversy and some considerable exposure. Well, unfortunately it really ticks none of the boxes needed for good flick and instead ends up as a boring account of a rather odd occurrence some 15 years after then initial incident.I don't know who or what this was aimed at, where this was going, or what sort of experience it was supposed to convey, but sadly unless its intention was to put me to sleep, any other goal was well wide of the mark. For such an intense subject, really just following through with half decent execution should net an average score, but here the proceedings are a bit of a mess.Much of the body of this film is filler and realistically an hour and a half is way too long given most of it is useless padding that adds no depth, dimension or understanding. So many pointless shots with silly music, so little conveyed with such a lengthy production.There is a lot wrong with this film but essentially I think there is at least a little wrong with everything, and a lot wrong with Most of it. I can't say there are any redeeming factors as it is barely watchable at best.I'd avoid it and watch something more meaningful like Tom & Jerry instead.

Going in, I thought this would be a revenge movie or something. I kept waiting for the twist, for the "something", but it never came. The dialogue is maudlin yet tedious, the characters act nothing like real people would behave in that situation. Character development or plot arcs nowhere in sight.Instead the movie plods along, slowly and nauseatingly recounting the sordid yet mundane history of the relationship of the main characters. Nostalgic, sentimentalized shots of pedo and little girl at the park as the wind blows through the grass, pedo and the little girl at the amusement park on the ferris wheel, pedo and little girl in the bedroom, a wistful shot of their fingers intertwined. Nothing graphic, but still, it's totally absurd. How did this movie even get greenlit?