Lilya 4-ever

The sense of dread and hopelessness conveyed by this film is relentless and heavy as fuck. Volodya day dreaming optimistically about what life will be like when he's dead rather than what he wants to be when he's older was soul crushing, like literally everything else about this film obviously. The acting from Oksana is phenomenal, everything feels natural. It's shot very well and effectively conveyed the horror of what's happening in /those/ scenes. It's hard to even imagine a life as difficult and tragic as Lilya's and it's easy to forget or not think about the fact that this is reality for young girls all over the world. I don't quite have the words for everything I'm feeling at the moment but this movie is crushing. It's a phenomenal film. The tone, the acting, the camera work, the dialogue, it's all perfect. I'll say that there were maybe sequences that could've been tighter. All in all, a moving watch that I'll be thinking about for a long time.