7/10
Filming cheats the audience
28 February 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Good while watching it, but I felt tricked at the end. The plot hinges on the difference between imagination and reality, but there is no indication in the way the scenes are presented that some are entirely in a character's imagination. The audience sees real settings – woman on computer with others working around her, girl being abused by angry boyfriend – and assumes that these are actual occurrences. And how does Jamie 'recognise' Kevin when visiting the flats where he is supposed to live? The audience sees a resemblance to the man shown abusing Rachel, but that scene didn't really happen. In the absence of this deliberate blurring of the real/unreal distinction, viewers would be able to work out early on what's 'really' going on.
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