Thirteen (2016, Miniseries; BBC 3)
Thirteen is supposed to be a crazy age to be, especially if you are a girl. You are not a girl, but you are not yet a woman. This, together with the raging hormones, lack of dopamine and sub-optimal maturation of the prefrontal cortex, looks like a lethal cocktail for disaster. Nevertheless, through failures and mistakes, a girl becomes a woman. Just imagine that this transitional period is lost. How would she handle such a situation? How would the family handle such a situation?
One day, the scriptwriter of the film was wondering as she was reading a newspaper article, "Whatever happens to all the girls who had been abducted and returned after all the camera lights dim on them? How do their lives continue?" With that thought, she penned this fictitious story.
Ivy Muxom was kidnapped at the age of 13 from school and was kept captive in a cellar for 13 years. One fine day, she made a dash for freedom, and she created a media frenzy. Everyone, the family members, the public and the police were left wondering about her story - the unbelievable story, whether she is mentally unstable, whether she is in cahoots with her kidnapper and if Stockholm Syndrome attributed to some of her behaviours.
The family and friends had moved on with their lives after giving up on seeing her alive after all these years. Her parents had split up. Her 'boyfriend' had married, and her sister is to be married soon. Her sudden reappearance rocks the whole status quo. Ivy too has problems adjusting living in a different world accepting to changes that happened in her 13 years of absence. First, there is the smartphone and the digital world.
Things get complicated when investigations on the possible kidnapper go nowhere, another young girl is kidnapped, and a dead body is discovered buried in the house where she was held captive!
A gripping and emotional 5-episodes police procedural drama which showcases succinctly the emotions of a family, friends and the victim who had been struck with this tragic malady. She yearns for long lost years of her childhood, stunted emotional development and coming to terms with her lost years and the years spent with her obviously maladjusted dysfunctional kidnapper.
The kidnapper, as we can meet at the end of the series, is a perfect description of Freud's lessons in psychology - of a person with Oedipus' complex, fixated with his mother, dressing up his victim (Ivy) in an old lady's housecoat ala Norman Bates in Psycho style!
One day, the scriptwriter of the film was wondering as she was reading a newspaper article, "Whatever happens to all the girls who had been abducted and returned after all the camera lights dim on them? How do their lives continue?" With that thought, she penned this fictitious story.
Ivy Muxom was kidnapped at the age of 13 from school and was kept captive in a cellar for 13 years. One fine day, she made a dash for freedom, and she created a media frenzy. Everyone, the family members, the public and the police were left wondering about her story - the unbelievable story, whether she is mentally unstable, whether she is in cahoots with her kidnapper and if Stockholm Syndrome attributed to some of her behaviours.
The family and friends had moved on with their lives after giving up on seeing her alive after all these years. Her parents had split up. Her 'boyfriend' had married, and her sister is to be married soon. Her sudden reappearance rocks the whole status quo. Ivy too has problems adjusting living in a different world accepting to changes that happened in her 13 years of absence. First, there is the smartphone and the digital world.
Things get complicated when investigations on the possible kidnapper go nowhere, another young girl is kidnapped, and a dead body is discovered buried in the house where she was held captive!
A gripping and emotional 5-episodes police procedural drama which showcases succinctly the emotions of a family, friends and the victim who had been struck with this tragic malady. She yearns for long lost years of her childhood, stunted emotional development and coming to terms with her lost years and the years spent with her obviously maladjusted dysfunctional kidnapper.
The kidnapper, as we can meet at the end of the series, is a perfect description of Freud's lessons in psychology - of a person with Oedipus' complex, fixated with his mother, dressing up his victim (Ivy) in an old lady's housecoat ala Norman Bates in Psycho style!
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