Went and watched 'Georgia Rule' tonight with some friends. It was possibly one of the hardest and yet most brilliant films I've seen in a long time. It wasn't sugar-coated or dramatised to the point that it seemed as if it was purely for study purposes, but wrapped in a superbly open wrapper that brings forward the sickeningly ordinary nature of the issues that it deals with.

It paints the picture of a girl molested by her step-father in such an unexpectedly common-place way that it finally reveals the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy of so many family's worldwide. The beauty of it in this film: no one noticed until it was finally revealed by her in desperation to an almost stranger. It took the drama out of it to make it obvious how this happens to ordinary families as well as those with psycho perverts living in them. It was fantastic.

It also deals wonderfully with the mother-daughter dynamic on two levels and is a no-holes-barred review of what love is really about beyond white picket fences and 'I love you so it's all fine'. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Surprisingly good acting from Lindsay Lohan and brilliance as expected from both Felicity Huffman and Jane Fonda. If you're up for some interestingly unemotional truth I'd recommend this film in a second.

Anyway, I'm off to bed so that I can hopefully fight off what is now a really bad stomach ache by tomorrow morning.