A very good movie

Catherine Hardwicke was, at first, a production designer for almost 20 years and, way before directing 'Twilight', she started her directing career with this rather amazing flick. In my opinion, 'Twilight 'was not that bad after all, at least it was way better than the terribly underwhelming sequels and with its $400 million global success, it made her the most commercially successful woman film director ever at the time. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, it was a really heartbreaking story and I thought it was actually rather frightening when you have kids of your own. Indeed, your teenage kids don’t need much to go down this terrible path and there is not much you can do to really prevent it, except hoping that they will use their good sense before doing something really stupid. Eventually, this movie was very well directed (which is even more impressive when you think that it was a directing debut) and the performances by all the actors were very impressive. I really liked the raw feeling of the whole thing and how realistic it looked, apparently, Nikki Reed wrote this movie with Hardwicke and she displayed some talent in this area but her acting career has been rather underwhelming afterwards. Anyway, to conclude, if you don't mind getting depressed when watching a movie, it is actually really good and it is definitely worth a look.

8/10