. But that latter allusion, hinting at a tragedy involving a busload of high school students, is a protracted tease that turns out to be misdirection.feels like a failed attempt to tame the unwieldy story of a complicated novel. But in fact it's an original screenplay, which means Egoyan has gone out of his way to create the overly fussy structure, perhaps in a bid to lend the psychologically wobbly drama some weight.
We then rewind to Jim visiting Veronica in prison, where she declines to pursue early release and insists on serving her full sentence, saying she deserves to stay in jail. Frame No. 2 stirs in fragments of information about Veronica's music students being the victims of some terrible abuse of her authority. That seems impossible given the joy she brings to her job while chaperoning them on a bus trip to perform all over the province.
Further detours off that flashback dig into what happened to Veronica's beautiful Brazilian mother , Alicia's role in their lives, and disturbing developments connected to the teenage Walter , all of which contribute to cloud Veronica's feelings about her father and herself. The one constant in her life was her childhood pet, Benjamin, the only pure innocent in the movie.
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