If you played the events out as they actually happened, in sequence, the only surprise you'd experience would be how you'd made it to the end without declining to further engage in this nonsensical and unrealistic fraud about old men and their relationships with children and very young girls. If the art of good film making relies on the editing deceiving and withholding information form you that it later reveals, and that information is, for all intents and purposes, known to the characters as the story progresses - the whole piece wins its plaudits through misleading and not through a genuinely engaging story - which this is not either. Valueless nonsense all round.
