What a beautiful movie!

Sick Product of a Sick System

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This story is set up well. The two main characters are defined. There is an effective use of flashbacks. The movie allows the viewer to try to sort out the equities of the situation. In spite of the subject matter, there is no black and white. Has Ray served his sentence? Has he atoned for all the damage he has caused? Has he learned his lesson? Does Una want revenge or does she still love Ray? Has she failed to move on, instead wallowing in self-pity or did Ray make it impossible for her to do so. It ends on an enigmatic note.

Una is: Exploitation at best ~ movie making and writing at its cheapest. Badly paced: Shot in a very large factory warehouse so the camera can simply follow characters as they wander from one side to the other then down corridors - moving in and out of various rooms to painfully pad out the length of this 50min (maximum) story to full feature length. It's a sensationalistic story, where the audience is turned into voyeurs as we are forced to eavesdrop while the writer and director gloat over numerous vile situations - involving an older married man interfering with a 13yr old girl. Very little class on display here - simply movie makers attempting to add an arty veneer over some overripe paedophilia obscenities. Even the supposed shattering climax is not delivered but ends up looking more like another lame excuse. I suppose this gives academia and movie aficionados an excuse to psychoanalyse the 'lives' of artificial (spelt 'Fake') characters & writings. From the look of the low box-office returns - the majority of audiences need more than vulgar details to qualify for their time and money. Expect a few walkouts on this offering.

Decided to watch this movie due to Rooney Mara ( liked her movie The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and especially her fearless and politically incorrect portrayal of the social outcast ) this one is dull ,however . had interesting premises but instead assumes the shape of an N.G.O advertisement .

This is not Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel turned into Stanley Kubrick's great film. Instead we have Rooney Mara(Una) as a late twenty something woman confronting a 50-ish man at his factory job somewhere in England. Flashbacks show a preteen Una becoming involved first as a friend and shortly later as a sexual conquest of her neighbor Ray. He has changed his name to Peter after a four year jail stint and is now married to an age appropriate woman. Una wants to know why he took advantage of her youthful innocence. He proclaims that it was true love and Una and the audience will be quite skeptical of his intentions. Several teary eyed scenes follow and the ending is not all that compelling. Rooney is believable as the disturbed young lady and she has no problem removing her clothes. As referenced earlier, Una does not come close to the depth and quality of "Lolita."