This is a pretty painful film to watch. Ben Foster, a rising star as
an actor, plays a combat veteran who is living in the woods on public
land with his daughter. It is unclear what it was like before his wife
died, but he was just very ill equipped to raise her in a traditional
way, despite loving her deeply. The two of them manage to cope quite
well, in that the father is teaching his daughter and they are most
definitely homeless. The relationship between them is companionable,
and the daughter feels safe and cared for.
Then they get hunted
down by police and after much ado, they are housed in a pretty rural
setting, and while the daughter seems to blossom a bit, the father is
clearly very stressed and not managing. So they are on the road again.
The
end of the movie is not what you would hope for, but probably much
closer to the truth about the struggle that combat veterans have with
PTSD and being closed in.
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