The Daughter (2017)

The population of a town built around its sawmill is thrown when the mill announces its closure. At the same time, the mill's owner is planning his second marriage to a woman less than half his age, which brings his angry adult son back home and into the life of a childhood friend.

The mood is set well and the simmering secrets generate genuine dread. I was fully enjoying the story. That is, until the secrets come out and the results are bizarrely wrong. The childhood friend reacts in a way that makes no sense in context of what we've seen from him for the first 4/5 of the movie.

You can't ruin a character's reputation just to manufacture drama & expect the audience to be impressed.

C