14 and older It was expected, she says more than once about really important events, which are not easy to talk about without emotions even after some time. Any emotional statement of the interlocutor, this calm resident of New York tends to translate into a task that must be solved to achieve the same peace that reigns in her soul. Mara is one of the most rational characters I’ve ever seen on screen. Even the children at school liked it, but not the children. But in the end she began to work with children, becoming an assistant teacher, and then, after hard work, and a teacher. Work is exhausting - but it should be, Mara believes, because work is work so that no one likes it.
The name of Mara in the film is almost not heard, but every 5 minutes we hear the name of her friend Joe, a friend from school. Joe's always hard, Joe's making trouble, Joe's threatening someone with a knife, Joe's having trouble with pills, etc. But Mara never refuses to help her. If the life of Mara is represented in the form of a diary, then the film will be a set of torn and then glued pages on which the name Joe appears.
Somewhere far behind the scenes left the birth of a daughter and parting with a loved one once. These events happened without a friend. In the frame get calm and uncrowded, surprising with its usuality of urban landscapes, ordering a flight ticket by phone, a lesson at home with a student who tries to count percentages. In those hours of her life, she remembered herself. Suddenly, as then, at 11 years old.
The film constructs a field of friendship that is not reduced to a joint pastime or even a common social group. If you are too similar, you can not help each other very much. But if someone is much stronger and braver, and someone is much more collected and smarter in something, then such a friendship will leave a deep mark on your soul. So deep that you take a piece of your friend’s soul – despite your emotionality and lack of concentration, you try to reason rationally and despite constant equanimity, you still can not resist emotions, although you definitely decided to keep yourself in control.
7 out of 10
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