Movie Review The Girl Next Door 2007

I am not a professional movie critic. I am not a movie maker. I am a mother of seven and I enjoy watching movies in my spare time. This movie was so real and disturbing, I had to pause it a few times. I told myself I couldn't stand to watch it but something kept urging me to finish. It was a powerful believable movie. I think the fact that is was set in the fifties made it even more disturbing. The fifties are a time in history that we think of as being wholesome and the atrocities that occurred in the movie cause a clash with this notion. I am sure that things like this and even much worst occurred then although nobody talked about it. This movie made me cringe, made me cry, made me think about being vulnerable and small and without control, where adults act like vicious children and children like animals. This is one my all time favorites.