Simply A Masterpiece

Must See Movie...

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Haunting movie, with a subject that will have you cringing, or crying. Wonderfully cast, great setting, and the background music fits like another cast member.

I wonder who votes for this sick stuff on IMDb ... I think many movies just have either fake votes for them, or the only people who see them are just weird or perverted.In the case of the "War Zone" this is supposed to be a serious dramatic look at incest and how painful it is ... such a sensitive look, with porno camera angles, and magnificently filmed scenes, and music, and of course to make it resolve, the evil abuser father is killed by the righteous son, meanwhile the audience has to watch all manner of sick sex.Face it, this movie is nothing but a surreptitious look at forbidden sex put right up on the silver screen with airs of self-righteousness. Tim Roth is one sick puppy to think he is doing anything but making it easier to show sicko sex, abuse and porn in the movies and purveying smut to the ticket buying public.That this piece of garbage would be a 7+ is a joke.I mean ... I don't know anyone who has been sexually abused, but I sure cannot imagine these people living in such a nice clean home, living such a normal life, with no sign of it to anyone. Read about this stuff and the signs are all over the place.Not to mention the sex scenes and the father raping his daughter and the daughter says nothing, I mean, how did this happen, and then it is all just fine because the son finds out and murders his father.Nothing is shown, nothing is taught, nothing is resolved, no character arc, no real background, nothing to get in the way of one low piece of garbage that someone took on just to get past the censors by pretense that it had something to do with something useful or socially responsible.Ha ... some joke. The people associated with his movie might learn something about abuse if they were put away in prison like they should be and had to endure a bit of it ... then their next movie might not be so seductively filmed.

Saw the movie first, then read the book. Usually its the other way around. In the extras to the book, the author describes his meetings with Tim Roth, how impressed he was by his charisma. What he didn't explain is why he allowed Tim Roth to completely change the characters personalities and distort his book and still film it under the same name. Not that the film was bad, just that they give two fundamentally opposed paradigms about many of the events.In the movie, she confronts the father about sexually abusing her, the implication during the hospital scene confirms our total hatred of the father and total sympathy for the two teen siblings.In the book Tom who's perspective we get almost exclusively, regularly talks to himself about how he is going to find the courage to get a knife and kill both his father and sister. His sister is portrayed as a girl of great beauty and in total control. The family visit the local bar where every guy in the place drools over her. She takes it in her stride. SHe is promiscious and strings along boyfriends dismissing them at leisure. SHe and Tom go into the big city where she initiates a threesome with them and one of her friends. Tom questions him about her relationship with her father, and she is either dismissive, or congruently indicates that she was not only the one who initiated their first incestuous liason but she often propositions the father for sex when she wants it and enjoys herself. After the revelations are made (her motorcycle riding BF drops by to accuse the father) we read a little after story, the mother won't let dad see the young girl. Mum won't talk to her daughter. Tom peacemaker in the middle. Finally Tom meets up with her at a Caribbean island and the book ends with him getting what he reveals he wanted all along, a chance to be with her sexually.

a story about hate.against a fundamental sin. against yourself. against lost of a space. against universe as reaction of age. gray lines. delicate subject. truth as drawing of profound sin. and search of sense for each character. a film like a stone in ash. harsh touch, memories of fire, culpability, fear, need of freedom, gloomy shadows. most cruel - the scene of ordinary family. and powerful feeling to be one of many other similar stories. nothing else. only a bleak circle like deep hole. and the art of Tim Roth to create affective mist of a situation. because the crime is only fruit of a hopeless situation . the man. his family. the power and levels of frustration. silence and fragile world of a teenager. a case. but not isolated. a cry. only as sign of empty space.