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Wonderful Movie

Good start, but then it gets ruined

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A modern-day version of Picnic at Hanging Rock which was a classic. This wasn't. Not even close. Kidman does her best to save the day as the mother whose children go missing. Fiennes (the husband) has his moments as does Weaving (the police officer) but the plot is as uninspiring as the outback town in which this is set.

I liked the movie. It was kind of slow and confusing at times but overall a good movie. I imagine people living in a small isolated town like that one would be a little weird, so isolated. Looked like it was Mars. Nicole Kidman was great I thought the way she portrayed the distraught mom with a past of her own. The ending was disappointing I thought, left you hanging. What happened to Lily? Was she murdered, Did Burtie kill her, was her body out there somewhere, did the unknown driver of the car her brother saw take her to where the concert was going to be held? And if she did go with him why did they leave the boy out there to die? A few questions unanswered in that movie but maybe that's the way the producers wanted it. Now I'm going to wonder forever if Lily died or went to another town. Good movie though.

Hahaha...this movie is my first ever IMDb review, as I just had to crack the movie and came here for the answers. Then it hit me! This movie is about about dissatisfaction, unfulfillment and in the end leaves you with the feeling! Great concept! 10 points! How many lines I have to write, if the review is just one sentence? What about simplicity? :)

Although unspoken it seems clear that Nicole Kidman's character is a sex and love addict. Her husband, Joseph Fiennes, is so repressed and full of rage (as sometimes happens to the partners of addicts). The teen daughter clearly follows in mom's footsteps adding to the father's sense of helplessness and rage. When the children disappear you see Kidman's character struggle with grief, denial, depression, and a complete mental break. From a mental health and addiction standpoint, this movie is great. But from a general movie escapism perspective it is slow moving and tedious. Yes, the movie is slow and painstaking. Just like the lives of addicts.