"Dear Zoe" is a film about a girl coming to terms with their sister getting killed by a car, that's what it says it is anyway. But when I watched it, it felt like they just showed the sister getting hit by a car, then skipped into a new film. Like it was just a Family Guy cutaway or something. Then like 6 months later the main character Tess runs off to live with her Dad just for the hell of it, and falls in love with the guy living next door. The both of them spend the next few weeks smoking weed together, but instead of making them high the weed just makes them both giggle their heart out for some reason. Also I think that's pretty bad because it kind of glorifies cannabis use for younger viewers, I know the film is rated 15+ but I think the target audience probably is people from 12 - 16. They portray cannabis as a funny little drug that makes you laugh, which it really doesn't and can sometimes land you in a lot of bother if you're not careful with it. And on top of that given that it's a film targeted at children and young teenagers it's probably best just not to glorify smoking any substances. And at the end of the film, the main character Tess decides after a few months of smoking weed and drawing pictures it's time to go home to her rich Mother and Step-Dad. So she gets a lift home and when she's outside she dramatically collapses on her front lawn and smiles. This would be cool if she'd actually done something like changed her life or developed as a person, but she didn't. Tess just smoked weed, drew pictures and cried about everything the whole time.
But I don't want to make the movie sound completely bad, the acting itself was pretty good, and the production of the film was great too. The only problem was just that the script was a bit silly. If this was a film made for TV I'd understand it a bit better because they don't need to have too much effort put into them, but this was released in theatres. But again, it was produced and directed fine, just not a great script. I feel like instead of a theatre film, this is more of a film to be shown on an unknown TV channel at 3pm on a random Tuesday.
Tingnan pa 
