To be honest, this wasn’t a movie I would have chosen to go and watch. I’d seen it advertised once and it didn’t really grab me…but I went to a secret showing at Cineworld and it happened to this movie, so I ended up watching it.
The movie starts off with a very familiar quote: ‘It takes a village to raise a child.’ And then those words are scribbled out and a response scrawled: ‘I can raise myself, thanks.’
The biggest problem I had with this movie was that it was really hard to suspend my disbelief. I know, it wasn’t supernatural/paranormal/fantasy/etc., but it was set in the real world…and it came across, to me at least, that many of the adults were aware that Georgie was living on her own, but did nothing about it. For me, that didn’t make a lot of sense. In fact, a lot of the movie felt like it wasn’t all that realistic…such as a twelve-year-old paying the bills for her house. Sorry, but I 100% don’t believe that the tiny amount of cash she got from fencing stolen bikes was enough to pay for the TV, mobile phone, landline, etc.
I really didn’t like Jason. To be honest, from his first appearance, the way he handled everything was just wrong…and I didn’t really trust that he was there for Georgie at all. There were a couple of bonding scenes later on in the movie, but I could understand why Georgie was so hostile towards him to begin with, after he just came back into her life and started blackmailing her instead of explaining the truth to her.
There were a couple of amusing scenes in the movie, such as the one where Ali is naming the spiders…and when he and Georgie are making up stories about what Jason could really be doing. However, those moments of humour were few and far between. I found the clips of other characters talking on video interesting, but although it gave the movie a little bit of a documentary feel, those scenes were really confusing. Who was interviewing these people about Georgie and why? And there were three random triplets and…a teacher?…who seemed to have no interaction with Georgie, yet talked about her like they knew things about her. And yet not one person cared that she’d lost her mother, so…yeah. Most of the other characters in this movie were really unsympathetic. There was an interesting scene between Layla and Georgie, though, which I would have liked to see explored further, as Layla seemed to have a bit more depth to her than her other appearances had suggested.
On the whole, this movie just didn’t really resonate with me. The actions of the characters didn’t make sense, and while I really liked and was able to empathise with Georgie, I didn’t like the way Jason handled things at all. Personally, I wouldn’t watch this movie again.
Ink of Blood 