What was this movie about?

No, i mean, what was this movie really about? Hopefully you haven't clicked on this after watching the movie and thinking, that was total mush. Hopefully you have clicked thinking, what idiot posted that? I'd better click on it and see what the h*** that poster was thinking, and ball him out about it, or at least make an intelligent, intellectual response.


So this film is about family right? That was the underlying message of the story, the importance of family. Why is it that she had to go and destroy hers? I mean completely just annihilated it. Killes son, leaves husband, got her parents to disown her and Lea had her memories of juliette just about wiped from her. what makes people do this? No, I'm not complaining about the story, this is what i liked most about it really - call it an analysis if you will. But what makes us do this? What makes man want to destroy himself, and the security around him? Juliette didn't just kill her son, she killed everyone, her entire family really, except for Lea of course. Lea's separation from her sister allowed her to be saved and separated, so lea and juliette could reunite someday. Really some great concepts in the writing (minus some minor 'cosmetic' flaws in the story).

I haven't really thought out how the meeting with the mother plays into this, but that scene sure was something. I have to wonder still why the mother burst into memory of juliette, but as soon as Lea returned, went back to her old ways. I would like to think that it was the mother wanting to deny memory of Juliette to Lea but.... Why would she do this though? Which makes me wonder, is the mother a character - a human being in the film - or is she just another force in the story? She's the only one that truly embraces juliette when re-meeting her. All others cast doubt on her and treat her, well, like sh**. I would like to know if anyone else has thought anything similar.

So... what is family? In one line the fellow (dont flame me for forgetting his name) says - and im paraphrasing, "sometimes books can better to us than our friends". I thought that line was really deep. I wonder if juliette really lst her family going into prison. She replaced them with books. She submerged herself into pages, rather than into that which she had no more. she replaced everything real around her (prison life), with the lives of those in her books.
-- call me insance, but this movie had an effect on me, making me wonder what it would be like to serve 15yrs in prison like this. surrounded by books, submerging myself in the lives of others, of those living fairy tail novels...

I guess im done with my homage (rant), but thought i'd throw it all out there, and see what people think. Id like to go on, but i dont think ill write a paper/novel here that noone will read (not that anyone is anyways).

Conclusion: film w/ some minor flaws, but really great overall (though i might just enjory it more as (if it were) a novel).