White Oleander

It seemed, often times that Ingrid was quite incapable of feeling and love. As for 12-year-old Astrid, she adored her mother, and felt guilty for holding her back from her dreams. Then, Barry Kolker came into their lives. He was ugly, and gorgeous Ingrid ignored him with disdain, but he soon charmed his way into her heart. Astrid and Ingrid had never been so happy before, but then one day, Barry just left. Ingrid went insane, and coldly calculated his death.

She tortured him, followed him, deleted files on his computer, and broke into his house, and left springs of the poisonous and beautiful Oleander flower in her wake.

Astrid was afraid for her and didn’t want to kill Barry but when she called to warn him she remembered how he destroyed her strong mother, and stopped. Eventually, Ingrid mixed a deadly concotion of white oleander and DMSO to kill Barry. She

She did the transformation of Astrid, from innocent girl to the tough, street chick, remarkable well. Her voice narrates the adopted story in the movie and her sad lilting voice is perfect. Astrid’s emotios and feelings come across well.

Her ice blue eyes, convey all the emotions that aren’t displayed on her face; especially her cold hardedness, and twisted love for Astrid. Both Astrid and Ingrid were acted, just as I imagined them to be.

In the book, Astrid went a little crazy with longing for her mother and was forced to stay in some poorly run foster home for disabled kids.

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