Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Cracks

Cracks is an independent drama film starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, and Imogen Poots, which was released theatrically on December 4, 2009.
The film was produced in 2008, written for the screen by Caroline Ip and Ben Court and Jordan Scott, based on a novel written by Sheila Kohler, directed by Jordan Scott and produced by Kwesi Dickson, Andrew Lowe, Julie Payne, Rosalie Swedlin and Christine Vachon. Ridley and Tony Scott serve as executive producers.

This is a story about girls, their lies, love and desire. As the mian character Miss G(starred by Eva Green) said, the most important thing in life is desire. You can achieve anything you want. The world is yours for the taking. Nothing is impossible for you, my girls. All you need is to desire it.


However, Miss G never has guts to explore the world outside the prisonlike boarding school. She makes up all her adventures and lies to the girls in school who adore her so much. When a beautiful Spanish girl named Fiamma (Maria Valverde) arrives at the school, Miss G's focus is shifted away from the other girls. Di has a crush on Miss G, and is the firm favourite and ringleader of her group. It becomes a triangle: Miss G gets increasingly obsessed with Fiamma, Fiamma is disturbed by Miss G and also openly disgusted by the teacher's hypocrisies and deceptions, and Di is terribly jealous and makes Fiamma's life hell. The girls finally got fight. But Fiamma starts to have an asthma attack, and the girls stop, terrified. They run to get help, and Di runs into Miss G, who declares she'll go to Fiamma.

In the forest, Miss G refuses to give Fiamma her inhaler, and calmly watches her die. Di returns just in time to see Miss G placing the inhaler in Fiamma's lifeless hands, and that's when she realises the truth.

In my opinion, Miss G never loves any of the girls, even Fiamma. She is so sick and jealous of Fiamma, who really has experienced what she always deams of but never ever gets. She is the one who really kills Fiamma. She thought Fiamma's death can cover all her lies and her dirty desire. She wants to be Fiamma. That is why she kept all Fiamma's letters and hold her so tight ly when she was dying.

The final scene has Di leaving the school to explore the world, as Fiamma had always spoken of doing, while Miss G, fired from the school, goes to the local village and finds a small room she can live in, presumably closing herself away for the rest of her life.

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