This is a brilliant example where filming--through the music, editing, camera panning & angles, colors, costumes, light positioning, non verbal acting and so on-translated a story to the audience with such depth and palpable emotions that the verbal dialogue and storyline become insignificant.



The meaning of the movie (or what the director translated from the novel) was conveying every nuance of the characters' emotions and distorted perceptions--especially the distorted perceptions of one innocent little girl in discovering sexual encounters she did not understand.



It is a rare gift when a director can make me squirm in my seat every time he tried to show the lurking emotions behind any of the characters expressions--be it lust, debauchery, love, passion, evil, desolation, and the death of innocence and hope.



Yes, it was love story torn apart by a foolish and misinformed child but that was the shallowest part you can grasp from the film. That was barely what the film was trying to convey!



This film was an artistic vision of what most of us experience in our childhood and young adulthood but what we most want to mask and keep hidden behind society's facade and social etiquette; it's about how our ugly yet beautiful realities can shape who we become or how dire those consequences can reach and destroy our whole lives .



It's about how our minds can conjure such nasty and ugly thoughts yet at the same time feel beautiful emotions of love and passion. It's a dichotomy of chaos and order filtering in our minds--from spitefulness to atonement, and in our realties--from war to peace.



And in the end the film conveys how fantasy, dreams and falsehoods can be the only things that can keep us sane and endure.



This is not to be missed if you share a deep understanding of how through film--and not through dialogue and storyline--a piece of art can be portrayed as a portal of what we humans truly feel and what we hide most dearly in polite society.



Absolutely brilliant!