It offers an understated but poignant tale of strained adolescence, depicting a young woman coping with the her mother's schizophrenia. It's as simple as that, nothing sensational, or self-helpy, no great revelations, just a series of painstaking and loving details of days in a girl's life. The dialogue is character driven, lusciously breaking all kinds of narrative rules in order to draw you into + read more The dialogue is character driven, lusciously breaking all kinds of narrative rules in order to draw you into the difficult moments of a person's life, at an age when expression and disclosure are choked. And that is the beauty of the story-the empathic tension we feel watching from the camera eye, unable to reach out and help. You aren't reading a graphic novel, you are viewing the highlights of a spy-cam; the frames and sequences seek to direct your psychological and heartfelt discovery of this tale.

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