I actually liked even more after I had thought about it: that every person the audience became in Tony or Emily. The ones that think that is an open ending and that there is something else and that olly could be still alive or the ones that became Emily and got closure and thinks that all happened in the way Alain said and Olly is dead and his body will never be found.
I adore it so much. Slow pace, competently made, great photography. Focused on character development and the process of investigation. Police is shown as competent and professional, but not as superheroes. The acting is excellent and none of the characters are two-dimensional like you often see in shows treating that subject matter. The ending, THAT ending. Too painful and gut-wrenching.
My immediate reaction was 'was that Ollie". But when I think about it the ending is more powerful and heart wrenching that we don't know what Georges looked at in the back of the truck, was he dead or is there a possibility that he survived and was that boy in Russia Ollie and who drew the picture of the stick man on the window in Russia - was it that boy or maybe Tony just to make himself feel close to Ollie. We'll never know and I suppose the point of the show is for the audience to feel that pain that so many parents in a similar situation have to live with. Heartbreaking but probably the more powerful ending!!!
Right, let's feel sorry for Vincent the child molester because he can't control his urges. Idiot. Guess what? Most men would like to bang high school girls but if you do, you're going to jail.
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Holy cr@p...
ReplyDeleteSo many votes for awful, so disappointing that so many people weren't able to see that it wasn't about what happened to Oliver
ReplyDeleteIs one of most depressing endings of all time. it was good but it broke my heart.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been a much less powerful ending had we actually been certain about Oliver's fate.
ReplyDeleteI actually liked even more after I had thought about it: that every person the audience became in Tony or Emily. The ones that think that is an open ending and that there is something else and that olly could be still alive or the ones that became Emily and got closure and thinks that all happened in the way Alain said and Olly is dead and his body will never be found.
ReplyDeleteI adore it so much. Slow pace, competently made, great photography. Focused on character development and the process of investigation. Police is shown as competent and professional, but not as superheroes. The acting is excellent and none of the characters are two-dimensional like you often see in shows treating that subject matter. The ending, THAT ending. Too painful and gut-wrenching.
ReplyDeleteJulien Baptiste is so cool :-)
My immediate reaction was 'was that Ollie". But when I think about it the ending is more powerful and heart wrenching that we don't know what Georges looked at in the back of the truck, was he dead or is there a possibility that he survived and was that boy in Russia Ollie and who drew the picture of the stick man on the window in Russia - was it that boy or maybe Tony just to make himself feel close to Ollie. We'll never know and I suppose the point of the show is for the audience to feel that pain that so many parents in a similar situation have to live with. Heartbreaking but probably the more powerful ending!!!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that we dont know...brilliant.
Right, let's feel sorry for Vincent the child molester because he can't control his urges. Idiot. Guess what? Most men would like to bang high school girls but if you do, you're going to jail.
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