burtlongest Review of Princess

Princess (I) (2014)

A girl in a distressing situation conjures an imaginary friend to aid her

[6 August 2016]

This film is about child sex abuse and there really are only 3 people involved the mother the mother's boyfriend and the girl, Adar, Alan is imaginary to help her to distant her self from the guilt she feels for allowing Michael the boyfriend to repeatedly violate her, The director largely depends on an audience to work this out and illustrates it with the resemblances between the boy Alan and the girl Adar, even putting them in the same clothes, and having them continue the same scene, when one exits. A lot of the things that seem to have taken place in the film have not, such as the trip in the car to see the friends of Alan selling themselves, as well as the imagined bumping into the father. The director moves the film along at snail pace because he is trying to show that the child's abuse has been developing over years and probably with the mother's awareness, this is suggested by the unabashed sexual behaviour of the couple in front of the girl, and even in one scene or more it looked like the very mother was about to seduce her own daughter.