Perfectly designed thriller with surprising turns of events

Saw this at the Leiden (NL) film festival 2015. Interesting to see how a blatant lie came about, gave rise to more lies, and how it all escalated into something that nobody really wanted yet proved inevitable. The premise that Sarah pushed her friend Charlie from the bridge, may seem unrealistic, but it came forth from reasons deemed logical by Sarah from her viewpoint. It could have been a stolen boyfriend, or spreading lies about her, or some other reason important enough for her to make this push an easy solution. When Sarah's parents hear about the accident, they go at any imaginable length to hide the awful truth and to protect their daughter against the outer world. Later on we learn that what really happened is all very different from what we got presented from the outset. That being precisely the core business of a thriller, it is very commendable that we did not outguess it until very late. In other words, the story was well built and kept us in tension all the time, eagerly awaiting the next turn of events to surprise us.

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