Katie Says Goodbye

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I don't think anyone could enjoy this movie, but I think that people who saw it will be glad they did because of all the emotions this movie and this actress made them feel. Olivia Cooke was exceptional. I felt proud that the leading character was able to stay positive throughout, she was a winner who had not yet experienced winning. She will and she would go on to bigger and better things in the future. Mireilli Enos was great as her selfish and depressed mother.

Finding out who sees you for who you are. There are bad people and there are good people, but they're often not the ones you think they are. Hope has a supernatural way of surviving no matter how hard you try to kill it.

Kudos to all involved with making this film. You told a story that is all too common in pieces and parts. This film was so sad I almost shut it off more than once. No one person could survive all that happened to Katie and she didn't. Your characters aren't people but, rather archetypes. Katie is a martyr. The monosyllabic Bruno is the struggle most ex-cons face after prison. The mom is an example of the upside down, dysfunctional parent child relationship typically brought on by substance abuse. Maybelle is society. She sees everything. A sympathetic witness unable to help. Sara is our darker nature. Mr. Daniels the father of our darker nature and an active participant in the burning. Dirk, Mr. Willard and Matty are the negative aspects of capitalism. Bullies and their followers professionally and personally. Officer Warren and Bear seeming care but, are in truth predators. I was unable to figure out the time for the movie to take place in: Dollar a gallon gasoline, sex with under-aged prostitutes for ten bucks, shipping container trains and no bill seen in the movie was larger than a twenty. The death of Katie and re-birth as a lot lizard was chilling. Your movie is too strong to win an Oscar. Katie Says Goodbye