Based on a popular novel with an intriguing storyline, this could have been a smashing film if it had been constructed better. It lacks intensity by not showing the devastating results of being an abandoned child, lonely, scared and hungry. It seems to gloss over all of that, and so we miss her transformation because she's shown as always being all right. I would have loved to see a wild child as main actor exhibiting all the angst of being unloved, and then she transforms in to a strong woman.
Getting back to my headline, there is beautiful photography and a sense of nature we don't often see.
Getting back to my headline, there is beautiful photography and a sense of nature we don't often see.