All the time I was watching this film, the acclaimed 2012 "The Hunt" came to mind. Same theme, same feeling: that the victim is actually the accused.
We are shown via a sign that the denomination of Jessica's father's church is Church of Christ. Yet in the dinner scene where Jessica, her parents, and James hold hands and the dad (pastor) says grace, it is the standard, word-for-word grace used by Roman Catholics, who don't deviate from it or tack things on at the end.
This is a story of forgiveness and redemption about two people who made a terrible, costly mistake six years earlier in their lives, when one was a young adult and the other a minor. The flashbacks reveal that both were at fault.
The idea and the intend is good; the process of the film is not so convincing. The storyline is consistent but you have the feeling the director was trying too hard.
