Pretty interesting, albeit not original, theme and with some very good performances one would've expected
this movie to be at least good. Doesn't even come close to that in my opinion because the most important pylon
simply isn't there ... The protagonist (Bullock) gets admitted into a rehabilitation facility in order to overcome her
extremely serious addiction to alcohol, and drugs? Prior to her admittance she even crashed her sisters wedding
and insulted everyone, and then she almost died after stealing and crushing a limousine.
So far so good but as soon as she gets admitted all her addiction issues simply cannot be viewed by the audience, or at least I was unable to spot a single instance during all those weeks of supposedly painful recovery, of her urge to succumb to that powerful feeling this film is supposedly dealing with ...
The images are beautiful since the facility is located in an idyllic forest location and the acting is pretty good, but there is no story to be told really ... On the contrary I found it a little bit insulting towards those people who actually go though something of the same order and have to watch Sandra overcome the same problems they go through without sweating and on top of everything, she becomes a coach figure of sorts for other patients.
Ironically two other patients relapse and at least add some seriousness into the endeavor.
So far so good but as soon as she gets admitted all her addiction issues simply cannot be viewed by the audience, or at least I was unable to spot a single instance during all those weeks of supposedly painful recovery, of her urge to succumb to that powerful feeling this film is supposedly dealing with ...
The images are beautiful since the facility is located in an idyllic forest location and the acting is pretty good, but there is no story to be told really ... On the contrary I found it a little bit insulting towards those people who actually go though something of the same order and have to watch Sandra overcome the same problems they go through without sweating and on top of everything, she becomes a coach figure of sorts for other patients.
Ironically two other patients relapse and at least add some seriousness into the endeavor.