REVIEW: Filmmaker Jamie Dack’s debut feature 'Palm Trees and Power Lines' is a realistic, deeply disturbing portrait of a lost teen girl and the predator who exploits her.
Jamie Dack’sis about losing a person. By the end, its 17-year-old heroine, Lea seems lost to herself, unsure of who to be. It’s the summer before her senior year. Trouble starts with a chance encounter with an older man, Tom , who is twice Lea’s age but nevertheless takes an interest. This is merely how it starts.is a film about a young woman groomed, unsuspectingly, into sex work by a charming 34-year-old man.
is the kind of movie in which young women like Lea and her best friend, Katie, are inclined to be cool enough, disaffected enough, for the boys who don’t really care about them — who would flee at the first sight of complication — to want to keep them around. And in which sex has that familiar, vague sense of currency: having it is better than not, more adult than not, even if no one can say why, exactly.
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