This is the first film in a long time that I watch

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This is the first film in a long time that I watched casually on TV, because I had nothing more interesting to do, and I was delighted with it while watching it. And so far I am very impressed. And so inconspicuously it promised ... The plot is relatively simple. The main character, Melinda, is a quiet and shy high school student who hides a terrible secret. She is stigmatized and isolated from the rest of the students who cannot forgive her for calling the police at a crazy party a year ago, causing many of them to be arrested and some to lose their jobs. They call her an informer, ridicule and tease her at every turn.

Melinda is sad and subdued, she is constantly silent, and her parents do not even imagine how much the girl is suffering. They are fully satisfied with the reassuring answer to the question "How is school today?" Melinda is running away from silence more and more, even having problems with teachers, such as a history teacher, who has her give a talk to improve her grade. Silence is her rebellion, incomprehensible to those around her.

She also resorts to drawings, especially the portrait of a tree that she drew during a drawing lesson.

The entire movie is quiet and subdued. We see the heroine's terrible loneliness, a teenager rejected by her peers for, in their opinion, treason. They do not try to understand her or discover the reasons for her actions, they persecute her mercilessly and make her a scapegoat.

Fragments from the past, flashbacks from this unfortunate event are interwoven throughout the plot.

Actually, from the middle of the film we can guess what happened, but each subsequent scene deepens the picture of the tragedy that befell Melinda. For someone who cannot understand the subtlety of the film, the protagonist's stubborn silence can be irritating and meaningless.



Anyway, she realizes it herself and begins to open up to the world. He turns to his old friend and confesses to her the truth, in which she initially does not believe and runs away indignantly. But then she analyzes the situation, and thanks to her sobriety, Melinda's nightmare comes to an end. This is one of those "quiet" productions that you watch while sitting in front of the TV with a cat in your lap and a glass of hot tea in your hand. The blood does not storm violently, we do not clench our hands - or at least not for long - and we do not grind our teeth over the intricacy of the plot.

We watch it calmly, but carefully, completely absorbed. Anyway, that's how I watched it. If you do not prefer such free and slow-flowing films, let him immediately skip "Escape to Silence", because he will be bored with it. However, if someone wants to treat themselves to a good movie, preferably in the evening and rainy season, I recommend this very little piece of art.