Trust (2011)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Contains Spoiler . . .Liana Liberato was was around 15 years old acting in this movie. As the story unfolds, the father's ad agency sexualized kids, and the father started to realize this sobering fact after his daughter was sexually assaulted. The movie Trust sexualizes Liberato in real life just like the story line. I appreciate Schwimmer's reason to make the film, but I wonder if he ever thought . . . holy crap I'm adding to the mess.

Like i accustomed you , i won't literally spoil the movie's scenario for you , but instead , i'm going to recap the avails and the lessons i've noticed and learned from it . First of all , I really liked the movie's story , and i reckon it's somehow similar to the reality , that if it was not based on true story tho, This movie induces the parents to take care of their children and never lift an eye on them , the director 'Schwimmer' visualizes the picture of the pedophile to be a normal guy or rather i"d say might even be a teacher , i believe it was a felicitous portraying for pedophiles , because most of the people i've met depicting pedophiles in their head as a tramp,rude or dirty looking persons , so all i can do for you is to recommend you to watch this movie and concentrate on the character of the pedophiles in this movie , they are kind , good-looking , and maybe more amiable than us , they may not be aware that they have some pedo attributes until it's too late like Annie's father 'Owen' he works for advertising company which exploit teenage pictures in provocative poses ,it's like the writer whispering to our eyes that we reap what we've sown ,now let's go back to the plot and discuss something else , e.g the way the parents treat their sons and daughters as stupid ,inexperience ,inresponsible kids whom their opinions and life views don't matter , instead of listen to them and indulging them and guide them the way but no way ,then they expect the contrary in return , c'mon , can you please treat your children as real friend if you want to know what's going on in their lives , and it's the only way for them to trust you and tell you their secrets , and for those who watched the movies when the therapy adviser asked her what's the thing you liked about Charlie 'The pedophile' She answered he was smart and funny and not judgmental, look all these qualities and attributes are found in parents of nowadays but in the opposite way , they are not funny with their children because they think their children are not mature enough to get the joke , and regrettably they're judgmental because they are busy enough to not to listen and understand and encourage and when you ask them why , their answers is we are busy working to provide put the food in the mouth of our children , really?! like they care , and finally i'd like to admonish any parent , before you give a gift to your daughter/son , make sure you teach them about its benefits and risks and always keep a friendly eye on them .

I have to say that 'Trust' is a good film, although, if, like me, you're a parent, you may find it more than a little hard to watch. It's a drama about a nice, normal, middle-class American family, whose life is ripped apart when their thirteen year old daughter meets a 'boyfriend' online. It's fair to say that this 'boy' is more of a man, but 'predator' may be a better description.It's hard-hitting and definitely not a feel-good movie. In places it's pretty full on and has received some criticism for taking certain scenes – what some people perceive to be – a little 'too far' in the name of making a point.I found it more 'horrific' than most – supposed – horror films, largely because it's totally believable and sadly very true to most families' lives, especially those with children who are starting to spread their wings and take a few independent steps online.Whether you love or hate the film, it's a story that needs to be told and, more importantly, understood. Parents need to be aware of who exactly their children may be communicating with online from the privacy of their own bedroom. While the kids themselves need to be aware that the nice kid they've met in chatroom may be anything but who they say they are.'Trust' isn't suitable for kids – naturally – but, in some ways, I almost see it as a 'public information' film about the dangers of internet relationship. It's a hard film to watch and, just because it's not a true story, doesn't mean that it's not tragically true.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

I'm with Goodfella218 on this movie. I just watched it last night on YouTube, and I can frankly say that I was not at all impressed. What, at first, seemed like an honest attempt to show a story about a teenage girl falling victim to an online predator quickly changed into a political campaign aimed at vilifying every adult man who has ever had an extra-platonic interest in an adolescent girl since the beginning of time. The ulterior motives of this movie were exactly what Dr. Judith Levine warned Americans about when she was promoting her book titled "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex" back in 2002. The storyline plays too much like a soap opera and it almost mirrors the 1981 Luke and Laura vehicle used on "General Hospital" in which Luke raped Laura and then married her. There is even a tacky scene in it in which they show the inside of the female protagonist's genitalia while she is being examined at the hospital.If you want to see a real movie about online predation, then see "Strangeland" instead. The girl in that movie is a year older than the female protagonist in "Trust," but she actually goes through the horrors of being kidnapped and raped, whereas in "Trust," the young girl named Annie has multiple opportunities to walk away from her situation. Also, at the same time, "Strangeland" strongly questions the Puritanical establishment's position on teenage girls straying outside their own age circles in search of romance, which makes it even more interesting. Although it becomes blatantly clear that European societies embrace the idea of girls in their early-to-mid teens having older suitors more readily than Americans do so when you compare American films like "Trust" and "Hard Candy" with European films like "Beau Pere" and "Ginger and Cinammon," the argument over whether or not an adult man who takes an attraction to an adolescent girl is a pedophile continues to be a heated debate among experts to this very day here in the U.S. Even though David Schwimmer did a splendid job at playing the protagonist in "Duane Hopwood," his role as a movie director in "Trust" leaves so very much to be desired. Another major flaw in this movie is that there is a scene in which Annie's father implied that all would have been well if the "Charlie" character who hooked up with his daughter online had been a 15-year old boy instead of a 30-something-year-old man. Not necessarily so. I once saw a story on the news about a 15-year old boy out in California who threatened to kill his 14-year old girlfriend with a knife if she didn't have his baby. After he was caught and arrested, he was sentenced to go to some luxury summer camp. I've seen David Schwimmer interviewed on the subject of how our nation's age of consent laws are written, and he comes across as a my-way-or-the-highway type of person on the subject matter in that he supports higher ages of consent in every state and tougher prison sentences for violating those ages of consent. He refuses to see the entire broad picture and this film is proof on its face of this idiosyncrasy of his. The idea that Annie in this movie would be as submissive as she was with the older man who had sex with her is so unrealistic, because most adolescent girls even as young as 12 years old have gotten their rejection skills down to a fine art.David Schwimmer manipulated the plot of the story to depict the characters in it the way he wanted his audience to perceive them rather than how they would be in the real world. For example, did you notice that despite the fact that the villain in this film, CHARLIE, also had liaisons with other girls Annie's age just like he did with Annie, somehow Annie and these other girls miraculously never got pregnant? It's like David Schwimmer devised this movie's plot in this manner so that his efforts to portray these teenage girls as gullible and easily manipulated innocents wouldn't be inadvertently undermined. When I was 16 years old, I caught this one 15-year old girl I knew in a parking lot acting real cozy with a 30-something-year-old man and, believe me, she was no victim of grooming. I know this for a fact, because this same girl sexually harassed me for three years when I was in high school. If her parents had prosecuted this older man on charges of statutory rape, I would have testified as a witness for the defense in a heartbeat. "Trust" is a sensationalistic piece of commercial tripe to be avoided at all costs. It's just another cheap effort to urge legislators to raise the age of consent to 21 nationwide here in the U.S. David Schwimmer needs to go back to acting. Obviously, his activism in rape awareness has gone to his head, and this movie reflects such fanaticism of his. And, yes, I do realize that online predators are a serious problem in our nation and throughout the world, but I don't think a movie about this subject matter is an appropriate arena for a movie producer to be promoting his pedophile panic propaganda. This is not exclusively an age-related crime. As a matter of fact, not too long ago I heard a story about a 13-year old girl who posed as a 13-year old boy in an online chat room to trick a 12-year old girl into having a lesbian relationship with her. This 13-year old girl arranged to meet with the 12-year old girl, and she dressed up like a boy to fool the 12-year old girl into having sex with her. When the truth came out, the 12-year old girl was devastated. Fortunately, criminal charges were brought against the 13-year old girl. Why couldn't David Schwimmer have done a film about a story like that instead?