Hope (2013)
I never had more to say about a film before while hardly being able to speak at all. I feel genuinely ashamed and embarrassed to have watched this—because seeing someone else's misfortune unfold in front of you feels like voyeurism. It's embarrassing to watch a family drown and not look away.
The film explores so many themes, but the most infuriating is the media. Reporters swarm the hospital, shove microphones in a child's face, camp outside the family's apartment. They don't care about the victim. They care about the story. Watching them exploit an 8-year-old's trauma for ratings made my skin crawl.
Then there's the parents. Before the attack, they neglected her—too busy fighting about money, too tired to notice she walked to school alone in the rain. Afterward, you see it in her eyes: she feels like a burden. She apologizes for needing surgery. She flinches when her father touches her. That's what neglect plus trauma does. If you don't want a kid, honestly, don't make one.
The cruelest irony? It took this nightmare for her father to finally stop being absent. He quit his job. He sleeps in her hospital room. He buys a mascot costume just to hold her again. He became the father she always needed—but only because something unspeakable happened first. That's not redemption. That's tragedy wearing a mask.
And one more thing: any lawyer who defends a rapist—especially a pedophile—should be hanged to death alongside the culprit. I don't care about legal technicalities. The film shows the real-life sentence: 12 years for a monster with 17 prior convictions. That's not justice. That's a joke written by a sadist.
Im sorry for the long review but i felt all this was important to point out.
Hope (2013)
I never had more to say about a film before while hardly being able to speak at all. I feel genuinely ashamed and embarrassed to have watched this—because seeing someone else's misfortune unfold in front of you feels like voyeurism. It's embarrassing to watch a family drown and not look away.
The film explores so many themes, but the most infuriating is the media. Reporters swarm the hospital, shove microphones in a child's face, camp outside the family's apartment. They don't care about the victim. They care about the story. Watching them exploit an 8-year-old's trauma for ratings made my skin crawl.
Then there's the parents. Before the attack, they neglected her—too busy fighting about money, too tired to notice she walked to school alone in the rain. Afterward, you see it in her eyes: she feels like a burden. She apologizes for needing surgery. She flinches when her father touches her. That's what neglect plus trauma does. If you don't want a kid, honestly, don't make one.
The cruelest irony? It took this nightmare for her father to finally stop being absent. He quit his job. He sleeps in her hospital room. He buys a mascot costume just to hold her again. He became the father she always needed—but only because something unspeakable happened first. That's not redemption. That's tragedy wearing a mask.
And one more thing: any lawyer who defends a rapist—especially a pedophile—should be hanged to death alongside the culprit. I don't care about legal technicalities. The film shows the real-life sentence: 12 years for a monster with 17 prior convictions. That's not justice. That's a joke written by a sadist.
Im sorry for the long review but i felt all this was important to point out.
