As both a child and an adult I have always watched lifetime movies and movies based on true stories, with the majority of them being about, child abuse, abduction and murder. Of course each and every one has moved me to tears, but this one haunts me.
I happened across this movie purely by chance when i was on YouTube, I decided to read up about aurore's case prior to watching it and I decided I didn't want to watch it due to the upsetting nature of the case. But I couldn't shake it from my head so I watched it. Now I cannot get the image of that child out of my head she haunts my dreams every night. She was failed by an entire town and I cannot comprehend how that was possible. The only people that I can't blame for her death is her birth mother and her siblings. I can't understand how her father went from such a warm loving man to a cold hearted monster that stood back and not only watched the daughter he loved be beaten to death but also beat her himself.
I know that if I knew a child was being beaten and abused I would go to hell and back to try and protect that child. I would be on the phone constantly to social services and the police and if they failed to do anything I would take matters into my own hands.
Now I know that things were different back then but there were so many people who could have done something but they didn't and I simply can't understand why!
The priest at the end asked them to forget about what happened and erase it from their memories, purely because of the guilt he felt for letting her down.
This is a film I can't erase from my memory and I know that child is most likely going to haunt me for the rest of my life.
Now as far as the acting goes, this is the finest acting I have ever seen and I believe this movie is a very rare masterpiece, which should have gained wider attention from the media.
Every actor deserves an award for their performance and this movie in general should have won a lot of awards.
This movie is very difficult to watch but It should be watched.
Review of Aurore
