Review by gilcostello

The film seeks to coalesce three totally convincing points of view on the possible origin of a man's death, a death that becomes more mysterious the more one looks at all the puzzling circumstantial pieces surrounding it, where, after a first all-inclusive glance, the conclusion seems obvious.

Anyone watching this film has a license to take it anywhere you want, and it could be a right or wrong interpretation, and it won't matter, for it comes down to a film portraying the many dimensions to a mysterious legal notion, "mitigating circumstances", what this film explores in depth, more than any film I've seen.

For me, after an experience at 11 years old, when my mom left our vicious dad, I could have gone with her, but I had certainty of her love, and none for my dad. So I chose to stay and take care of him, to win his love, to get proof of his love, what turned out to be a bad decision. He just got more brutal, almost killing me three times.

That's where I entered the film, inside a child's desperation to be loved at all costs, a child with a Dostoevskian sensibility who thinks in ways no adult would ever be able to discern, what makes for an interesting child with an interesting plan.