The Ballad of jack and Rose follows the story of an isolated father and daughter searching to define their relationship.
Jack is a father who has raised his daughter on a former hippie commune located on a small island. They have very little contact with anyone else except for an occasional friend or two. Jack discovers he is dieing and also comes to the realization that he and his daughter need aid in their current life, him because of his health and his daughter Rose in learning to deal with life with out him. Jack visits the main land and invites Kathleen and her two sons to live with them to aid in these things.
Roses quickly feels threatened by Kathleen and proceeds to behave in disturbing and unhealthy ways to show her protest. Rose makes a pass at Kathleen's oldest son who turns her down, she keeps a copperhead to use to scare Kathleen, fires a gun into Jack and Kathleen's room, and eventually loses her virginity to Kathleen's youngest son, just to name a few. Eventually Roses actions lead to her being assaulted by Kathleen's youngest son in front of Jack causing a fight between Jack and the boy in which Jack gets beat due to his poor health. Rose comes to defend jack pushing the boy out a window injuring him badly. Kathleen has enough and leaves Jack and Rose alone.
As Jack nears death he and Rose share a strange moment in which they have a sensual kiss prompting Jack to cry out for forgiveness. Jack soon dies but not before he makes Rose promise to live. Rose burns down their house and leaves for whatever.
This film is sad and horrible romancing for poor parenting and a disturbing girl. Jack is an obvious failure as a father preferring to be a friend or even flirt with his daughter instead of a parent. In fact Jack's actions are selfish and possessive preventing his daughter from growing into a health individual. His realization that Rose may have issues comes to little to late condemning her to a life of self seeking destruction as we see in the film.
The true sadness of this film is not in the place the writer obviously wants it to be but in the fact that the writer actually seems to think there is some sort of romantic quality to the horrid parenting of Jack which creates a disturbed teenager with no visible means of creating a healthy future for her.
I have been working with teens for nearly ten years now and I have seen how the selfishness of parents in attempts to keep their kids to themselves can create many problems for those teens. Jack is not a loving parent who has a unique relationship with his daughter, he is a man who's selfish desire to isolate himself and his daughter damages her as a person. I have seen it many times and Roses future is not something free or romantic but one in which she will be an easy target for exploitation thanks to her father.
This film is a how not to with regards to raising kids.
Jack is a father who has raised his daughter on a former hippie commune located on a small island. They have very little contact with anyone else except for an occasional friend or two. Jack discovers he is dieing and also comes to the realization that he and his daughter need aid in their current life, him because of his health and his daughter Rose in learning to deal with life with out him. Jack visits the main land and invites Kathleen and her two sons to live with them to aid in these things.
Roses quickly feels threatened by Kathleen and proceeds to behave in disturbing and unhealthy ways to show her protest. Rose makes a pass at Kathleen's oldest son who turns her down, she keeps a copperhead to use to scare Kathleen, fires a gun into Jack and Kathleen's room, and eventually loses her virginity to Kathleen's youngest son, just to name a few. Eventually Roses actions lead to her being assaulted by Kathleen's youngest son in front of Jack causing a fight between Jack and the boy in which Jack gets beat due to his poor health. Rose comes to defend jack pushing the boy out a window injuring him badly. Kathleen has enough and leaves Jack and Rose alone.
As Jack nears death he and Rose share a strange moment in which they have a sensual kiss prompting Jack to cry out for forgiveness. Jack soon dies but not before he makes Rose promise to live. Rose burns down their house and leaves for whatever.
This film is sad and horrible romancing for poor parenting and a disturbing girl. Jack is an obvious failure as a father preferring to be a friend or even flirt with his daughter instead of a parent. In fact Jack's actions are selfish and possessive preventing his daughter from growing into a health individual. His realization that Rose may have issues comes to little to late condemning her to a life of self seeking destruction as we see in the film.
The true sadness of this film is not in the place the writer obviously wants it to be but in the fact that the writer actually seems to think there is some sort of romantic quality to the horrid parenting of Jack which creates a disturbed teenager with no visible means of creating a healthy future for her.
I have been working with teens for nearly ten years now and I have seen how the selfishness of parents in attempts to keep their kids to themselves can create many problems for those teens. Jack is not a loving parent who has a unique relationship with his daughter, he is a man who's selfish desire to isolate himself and his daughter damages her as a person. I have seen it many times and Roses future is not something free or romantic but one in which she will be an easy target for exploitation thanks to her father.
This film is a how not to with regards to raising kids.