Movie Review! Innocence

After her mother's death, Beckett and her father move to New York so that she can attend a private prep school in Manhattan.  Still grieving over her mother, Beckett slowly begins to learn the who's who of the school.  After meeting a group of teachers, she swoons and faints, and spends the rest of the day napping in the nurse's office.  When her father picks her up, they witness the suicide of a fellow student.

Fast forward a few days and Beckett is in therapy with the school counselor while her father begins dating the school nurse.  After hearing a friend's mother call the school nurse by another name, she then begins to suspect that the nurse is in fact a Lamia (a mythological monster) and that the nurse (and fellow teachers) are trying to kill her.

Say what?  That's a giant leap...But it is quite possible we were supposed to assume she was suspicious all along.  It really was hard to tell what Beckett was feeling because the actress only had one expression throughout the entire movie: a sleepy, stoned, smiling expression.

Honestly, deep down I think there is a good story to be found in this, but it is lost somewhere in the translation of filming.  Based on a young adult book about vampires after virgin menstrual blood, I liked the angle of the Lamia a lot better.  The majority part of the movie was a dry drama about Beckett fitting in with her fellow classmates with periodic blank stares at the tea the nurse drank.  There is a love interest, but even this is executed poorly.  I don't know...maybe if I were thirteen again with very few movies under my belt I may have enjoyed this much better.  Take it for what it is...