| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Despite the somewhat unbelievable plotting, this is a thoughtful movie about the way in which Western culture treats its young. The issue is the rights of poor natural parents as opposed to those without kinship who would clearly make better child rearers.
Our emotions are played with in being presented with a junkie mum (the lowest of the low) whose child is kidnapped. We feel horror at the thought of pedophiles molesting the four year old, yet feel equal disgust for her mother since she has no concern for her daughter. Children here are used as pawns in adult get even games involving drug dealers and child molesters who use extreme violence to avoid detection.
The characters never rise much above the level of mouthpieces for particular moral viewpoints, despite the excellent acting - yet the theme never fails to grip.
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