Just saw this movie and I was very moved by it. Like most foreign films, it will require the viewer to work a little bit, and be patient as the story develops, but you won't have to work at caring about the title character, Or. She's a normal girl mostly raising herself in a tiny apartment with a mother who would rather sell her body than get up in the morning to go to a normal job, (which her daughter has to find for her). But the filmmaker makes you care, somehow, even about the mother. Maybe it's because these are real characters, not caricatures, and there isn't a hip soundtrack for the audience to numb itself to half the time. In fact, there is absolutely no music in the film, that is until the final, fateful shot. You will ask yourself during the movie why a beautiful, bright girl with enormous potential would follow her mother into a thankless life of prostitution, but by the end of the film you will begin to understand that it is her perception of her potential that leads her to this end, and it will make you think. Find this movie, and encourage others to discover it's importance. You won't be disappointed.
Review of Or (My Treasure)
