I found the best acting to be by whoever played Miriam, the nanny. The kidnapped child's father smiled in the wrong moments for me ruining the scenes. I imagine those moments, those days, those weeks to be torturous for the parents. I didn't get any of that from the father. I thought that the robotic attitude and the frozen smile suited the mother, though. A former sexually abused child herself, I expect the character learnt to hide feelings and thoughts and to mimic normal behaviour. And she looked just like that to me, as if she was just automatically going through the motions.
The detectives had a dumb attitude, doing everything possible to get people to shut down and stop talking, even when those did have something they wanted to share. They were incessantly snarky, sarcastic, immediately mocking every sentence. The characters were just not well written. DI Costa tells the witnesses what she thinks happened, "it's not gonna be important because the nanny did it, but ok, tell us anyways". A real cop wouldn't tell you anything to discourage you from actually sharing. I understand that Costa was corrupt but she was supposed to derail the investigation, not let the witnesses know what the police is working on. Also, when they're talking to the witnesses, the DIs do not support each other at all, repeatedly interrupting and criticising each other.
The DIs inexplicably force one of the witnesses to hack someone else's phone. The phone contains a voice recording of the parents negotiating the price for the French ambassador's sexual encounters with their own daughter. They even mention that they will drug her so that she won't cry and won't remember the details.
Half way through the hacking process, the DIs have to go back to the victim's parents house and they bring the witness and his computer with them... to continue hacking the phone.
:)) they leave him alone working downstairs, in the house of the parents/suspects.
I happen to know that Romania doesn't have a culture of gangs, never had a single gang in fact. The writer is taking about Gipsies, but he calls them Romanians. Different language, different customs, different music even.
But this is a story of a child at the hands of abominable adults, so I wanted to know what happened to her. You are introduced to the facts gradually, you learn them just like an investigator would. You hear a plausible story and you know that. Then you hear the opposite in a way that also makes sense, and you now believe that. And so on until the end. Costa on the phone, telling someone that she hadn't expected those who basically corrupted her to go quite as far as killing a cop's child- that is when you finally know whose version of events had been true all along.
But of course, sadly, the innocent nanny ends up being taken by the police away from her own child; she was the only person in the victim's life who cared about and tried to protect her. The detective whose theory had been right loses his own daughter, and ends up in prisión after executing the couple. Basically, justice is only half done, and all innocents involved end up suffering irreparable damage, including the unstable aunty.
It's a mature ending to the story, and suddenly the movie's fault don't seem so big anymore.
The detectives had a dumb attitude, doing everything possible to get people to shut down and stop talking, even when those did have something they wanted to share. They were incessantly snarky, sarcastic, immediately mocking every sentence. The characters were just not well written. DI Costa tells the witnesses what she thinks happened, "it's not gonna be important because the nanny did it, but ok, tell us anyways". A real cop wouldn't tell you anything to discourage you from actually sharing. I understand that Costa was corrupt but she was supposed to derail the investigation, not let the witnesses know what the police is working on. Also, when they're talking to the witnesses, the DIs do not support each other at all, repeatedly interrupting and criticising each other.
The DIs inexplicably force one of the witnesses to hack someone else's phone. The phone contains a voice recording of the parents negotiating the price for the French ambassador's sexual encounters with their own daughter. They even mention that they will drug her so that she won't cry and won't remember the details.
Half way through the hacking process, the DIs have to go back to the victim's parents house and they bring the witness and his computer with them... to continue hacking the phone.
:)) they leave him alone working downstairs, in the house of the parents/suspects.
I happen to know that Romania doesn't have a culture of gangs, never had a single gang in fact. The writer is taking about Gipsies, but he calls them Romanians. Different language, different customs, different music even.
But this is a story of a child at the hands of abominable adults, so I wanted to know what happened to her. You are introduced to the facts gradually, you learn them just like an investigator would. You hear a plausible story and you know that. Then you hear the opposite in a way that also makes sense, and you now believe that. And so on until the end. Costa on the phone, telling someone that she hadn't expected those who basically corrupted her to go quite as far as killing a cop's child- that is when you finally know whose version of events had been true all along.
But of course, sadly, the innocent nanny ends up being taken by the police away from her own child; she was the only person in the victim's life who cared about and tried to protect her. The detective whose theory had been right loses his own daughter, and ends up in prisión after executing the couple. Basically, justice is only half done, and all innocents involved end up suffering irreparable damage, including the unstable aunty.
It's a mature ending to the story, and suddenly the movie's fault don't seem so big anymore.