Roseanne Skolnick (Monica Keena) is a popular cheerleader and girlfriend of the football player Jimmy (James DeBello), and she has a very dysfunctional family: her mother Maggie Skolnick (Ellen Barkin) is having an affair with a bartender and her stepfather Fred Skolnick (Michael Ironside) is a drunken and aggressive man. Good or bad, we are the only ones responsible for our fates. Although, I think what the film does best is that it shows us these sadnesses while reinforcing us with the concepts that we can make anything happen if we want to badly enough. The film epitomizes the continuous hopelessness that many today feel but refuse to acknowledge. While Vincent (Vincent Kartheiser) the seemingly gloomy one, who loves her from the beginning of the film is the sole voice of reason, hope, and beauty in her slowly cascading world of tragedies. She goes from this glowing image of beauty to a shadow of a human being. As the story progresses you watch the ghosts of Roseanne (Monica Keena) slowly absorb her. You felt as if you were trapped between Heaven and Hell, happiness and sorrow, love and loss. He would make you feel as if you were in some drug induced dream/nightmare. While Dostoyevsky made his point with words, Rob Schmidt did the same with the films imagery which truly was both narcotic and haunting. When I first heard about this being based on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment I was fearful that it was going to be another half-hearted teen version of a classic.
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