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Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

rashmitharao The film has many messages to convey. Besides that, it stretches the viewer's ability to empathize with the central character. It tests the viewer's sense of humanity, sense of justice, and his/her levels of tolerance. The viewer is tortured, is made to think beyond his comfortable life, his family, his friends etc. and is forced to think and feel for girls like 'Justine', girls who are forced to forego their self-identities to live under the identity of 'Justine'. Justine symbolizes the millions of innocent girls born free, born to live normal lives but are kidnapped, trafficked, blackmailed and forced into prostitution. Such girls gradually lose the sense of self, lose the sense of identity, sense of being human and begin to believe that they deserve it, that this is what their destiny is, this is what they are made of. How is it justified? Why should such a thing happen to anyone? Is there an escape? Where is hope? Who am I? What am I? If I escape, who will I be? Though the film may not offer answers to these questions, but through the character of Pauline it raises these questions in an effectual manner in the viewer's hearts, making 'Your Name Is Justine' an unforgettable experience.

Jigeeshu Joshi it is very difficult to write about this movie. this movie have so many messages to convey. this movie defines tragedy in its true sense. we have a habit of complaining for small misfortunes or inconveniences. this movie tells what it is like when you are deprived of these conveniences and happiness. it is a heart touching movie. Mariola is a pretty girl who stays with her grandma in a small town in Poland. Like any juvenile she has dreams of visiting beautiful places and living a flamboyant life. she gets this opportunity when her boyfriend propose to take her to Germany to meet his parents and see the country. Mariola has become a Pollyanna, dreaming of her days in Germany with her boy friend. but all her dreams are shattered when she finds that it was a bait and that she is thrown into prostitution by her boy friend. she is optimistic at first but as days goes by she has slowly given up. she has a becomes a wounded tiger who has lost everything and has nothing to lose here after. she pleads for her escapade. but she is turned down again and again. She no more believes that god has that power to do miracles and so she takes law in her hand and stabs her boyfriend to death. she is jailed but for her she has achieved freedom.last scene is the most touching when she is walking along the beach with her old girl friends who are married happily. in her tired strides there is a maturity which is unlike girls of her age. the music and ambiance throughout the movie is apt. All in all it is a Cathartic experience.

Marcin Kukuczka "Where are dreams? Where is love? Where is this d... justice?" These pessimistic questions at the end of the movie are not asked by someone old who has got through the hardship and cruelty of war or Holocaust, but by a young girl from Poland, Mariola, whose psyche has forever been hurt. Putting it in the utmost frankness, Pena's film is, unlike many other films, an extreme movie. It is so powerful emotionally that its content makes even the toughest guys shocked and upset. It is not just a drama that makes people cry... what you get while and after watching the film is far more extreme than just tears. Viewers feel an undeniable, true empathy with the main character, a kind of feeling that is caused by the content of the film when everything in you cries out: Is this humane, is it possible that people don't hesitate to commit such crimes?"CONTENT: The movie starts in a nice, even sentimental way. It is so called the "golden Polish fall" when we see the leaves falling onto the ground. A young gentle girl, Mariola (Anna Cieslak) falls in love with a boy she has known since the school years, Artur (Rafal Mackowiak) and enjoys spending her free time with him. But the feeling that grows in them is not an experienced love but rather seems to be a pure youth female - male sympathy. Although Mariola lives a very peaceful life with her Grandma (Barbara Walkowna), she primarily wants to be happy (who does not?) But where does she find happiness? In the arms of her boyfriend. She seems to place all her hope of future in him. One day, the young couple decide to go abroad. The trip to Germany at first is to be a two - week vacation but from the very beginning there is something weird in all of it. Actually, Artur does not tell Mariola what precisely they are going to do there. But love means trust and in this very feeling she leaves her beloved Grandma, her hometown and leaves for a journey that will play a decisive role in her later life and that will terribly affect her psyche; a journey that will have to turn her honest love into rotten lusts, her freedom of youth into unbelievable captivity, her name Mariola into Justine, and her hope and dreams into an unbearable shock and disappointment... I won't reveal more of the content because the film will do this itself. I can't promise anyone if he/she will like it or not. SPOILER: One thing is certain: there are unbearably brutal moments and sometimes, you will have to close your eyes. Yet, they are worth seeing in order to understand one critical truth - the world that knows no frank love is a real hell on earth!CAST: The performances are generally very fine. The most important note must be made about a young Polish actress Anna Cieslak. She does a wonderful job as Mariola expressing her deep psychological states. Sometimes, she acts like a very experienced actress and her gestures are to that extend natural that you watch her performance and feel as if you watched realistically someone's tragedy. Anna Cieslak allows viewers to get to the psyche of her role. I will never forget the moment when the plans of Artur are revealed. In a brief, very brutal moment, she has that depressing blink in her eyes that people have when all their world seems to end so suddenly and unexpectedly. Rafal Mackowiak is also worth consideration as Artur, a boy who forgot what conscience and normal human feelings are. I also liked Arno Frisch as Niko, a character that is hard to figure out. Sometimes, he shows gentleness, but in some other moments, he seems to lack this, too. Finally, I must mention Mathieu Carriere, a very talented German actor. His role is very difficult since he plays a particularly evil character but he gives a very natural performance. Mathieu's portrayal shows us what it means to lose all that is humane...There is one significant factor except for the cast and the extremely dramatic story that makes this film particularly powerful. That is the dense atmosphere. The film is full of VERY intense psychological moments which make people stare at the screen; they not only observe the tragedy but they, as if, take part in it and yet, obviously, they are not able to do anything to change this. As a result, this occurs to be a very difficult film, definitely not the one to be watched by children or viewers who easily get to despair. Yet, although it is rather hard, I think that this feeling of helplessness perfectly reveals the real world, how we usually see people suffering. Although, we sometimes try to help them, there is still very little we can do. If you can stand violence, rape, extreme humiliation and personal tragedy showed in a film, I recommend you to see De Pena's movie. It is not just a film, but a story of a tragedy of innocent people, something the world is full of no matter if we live in the times called "Dark Ages" or in the times that call themselves "times of tolerance and freedom" See YOUR NAME IS JUSTINE and you will look at this world from a bit different perspective. Such questions like "What is a true love?" "Does the world care?" or "Where is justice?" will be considered in an entirely different way. By showing the world which lacks love and humanity, the world that deprives young people from joy of youth and freedom, it teaches how crucial this problem is. In other words, doesn't it show a need to build a different world now not to experience slavery in the 21st century of Christianity? A FILM THAT LEAVES MUCH TO REFLECT ON