Without giving too much away, it's one of the most confronting, gut-wrenching yet beautiful and interesting films i've seen for ages (how a film featuring a scene that shows Jessica Alba quite literally getting her face bashed in can be called "beautiful", don't ask. Maybe because it's set in 1950's America. Gratuitous violence aside, they kept damned nice households!)
It's told from the point of view of a deranged young dude (played perfectly by Casey Affleck, the "indier" of the Affleck boys). You simultaneously want to spit in this guys face and give him a hug. You see him mess people up and, in flashbacks, see why he's so messed-up himself. He's no victim, but you can still sympathise with him.
We always want to know what makes a monster, but sometimes they just are and they really, really can't help it.
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