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This almost feels a lot like a fresh re-imagined version of Carrie (1976). Which is a good thing. But there is more to this new story. Can't wait to see what season 2 brings (if Netflix is kind enough to grant us one).

This movie was recommended by my psychopathology professor when we studied Oppositional defiant disorder to observe the case and how difficult it was to watch the pain of Benni and everyone around her. This film invites us to be in her shoes, a child who has been through so much, who still wants her mother's love and care, who has no control over her own destiny within the system. Putting ourselves in the shoes of the mother who doesn't feel she has the means and resources to deal with her daughter's difficult case and in place of the workers of the system who dedicate their lives to helping these children, who suffer with the difficulties of their work and with purely human pains and whom I admire infinitely. It is difficult, raw, painful to watch how difficult, raw and painful it is to know that cases like this exist in real life and that the system, despite the efforts of its workers, is not prepared to deal with it.