It’s been conceived as a series of actors’ moments that hold you when they’re vibrant enough (and there are some awfully good actors on hand here) but could have used a lot more cohesion.
, has been through a transformative trauma. In the film’s opening moments, she’s discharged from a mental ward, where she’s been dealing with PTSD; a series of charged flashbacks show us what happened to her. In Manhattan, where she was a university student majoring in economics, she was approached at a bar by a seemingly nice guy, who had a drink with her, and when she went to the restroom he attacked her, shoving her inside and sexually assaulting her.
It is, but not in the way you expect. We register the pain under the surface, but mostly we see that beneath Benita’s trying-to-be-confident-enough-to-get-by demeanor, she won’t commit to anything — to what she wants to do, to this friend, to that attraction. The movie doesn’t commit either. Based on Kathleen Tessaro’s novel, it’s comprised of bits and pieces that sometimes work and sometimes don’t.
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