This movie bugged me no end.
I don't want to give a spoiler so will just say: politics.
The GF liked it and I bothered her by sighing frequently. She knows me so well she knew that they were not happy sighs.
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~Anya~
Democracy Dies in Darkness
~Washington Post
"...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable."
UN Human Rights commissioner