A very good movie

Since I kept hearing some good things about this flick, I thought I should check it out. Eventually,  it was starring 2 really impressive performances by Peter Mullan (easily one of the most underrated actors at work nowadays) and Andrew Garfield (one of the most promising actors at work nowadays). I must say that the sober directing was really effective as well and the whole thing turned out to be a gloomy and pessimist flick which shows that there is basically no redemption possible for children killers. Actually, when you think about it, almost nobody would forgive anyone for such a crime and that's maybe the weakest point of this movie. Indeed, they displayed in details how twisted and damaged Philip was but Eric came up as rather innocent and, in my opinion , they should have shown what he did to that girl. By showing nothing, they gave him some kind of angelic qualities which he actually didn't have. And this effect was reinforced by the casting of Andrew Garfield, a rather awesome young man who portrays a character who seemed to be so nice. I think the movie would have been even more effective if the lead was, maybe not really despicable, but at least, not so 'charming'. Still, the story was really thought-provoking and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are curious to see how Andrew Garfield started his promising career.