Now, I love a great Shailene Woodley movie just as much as the next person and this my friends is no exception. I came across this film on accident- just browsing trailers on YouTube in search of a really nice story to watch. And then I found this and I must say I am PLEASED!
This story tells the tale of teenager, Kat Connors and the relationship she has with her mother before she (the mother) goes missing. At first glance, Eve (Kat's mother) appears to be bat-shit crazy when really she just has a yearning to regain her youth and once wild and beautiful life.
On the other hand, Kat is more focused on finding herself by exploring her sexuality. She is convinced that her lover, Phil is "the one" and pounces at any opportunity to indulge in sexual encounters with him. Throughout the movie we are taken through flashbacks of her childhood onward and we begin to to get a deeper sense of the type of person Eve really is the the effect she has on her daughter.
The scene is set in the 90's where we see that Kat isn't exactly startled by the fact her mother is "gone" according to her father, Brock. As a matter of fact she almost seems relieved. I mean did she ever possess at least an ounce of care for her mother? As you watch, you would come to understand that this mother- daughter relationship is based on a cycle of jealousy and resentment.
Shailene does a terrific job of bringing forth this raw, wild, bold and almost animalistic character that is Kat to us. It is nothing like I had ever seen from her thus far and honestly I am really looking forward to more of it. She portrays a person with real feelings and doesn't pretend to be someone she is not. Kat takes what she wants which seems to be a quality she inherited from her mother.
Yet, just to please her father, Kat goes along with the necessary requirements that must be done in order to find her missing mother. But at the same time she continues to live her life and exercise her curiosities as if nothing has happened. So why must anything change?
But soon something does change. Kat begins to have dreams that are strange and complicated to understand. She just let's it pass for the first few times but isn't able to go on in that manner because she winds up with a feeling that there is something more to her dear mother's disappearance.
As things become more intense and clues begin to unravel, will the truth be what you expected?
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