Ann Cesare

Like others here, not only was I left wondering what the movie was about, but why Maggie Gyllenhaal was nearly naked for most of the movie. Even her bra was see-through. Was that really necessary? Not unless the movie is about her latent pedophilia, which is a topic trying to be normalized in our society lately. The movie made no sense, her weirdness was, well, just weird and the story about the child's poems was underdeveloped. All in all it was a stupid movie that went nowhere, made no sense and bordered on pedophilia. BTW, a lot of what went on in that movie was untrue. She would have needed a degree to be a Kindergarten teacher, all that waking him up and taking him to a bathroom behavior would have been reported by the assistant teacher. There appeared to be no supervisors or administration in the building... A teacher who showed up at a bar a parent owned could have found herself fired or in a lawsuit. And it was totally unrealistic that the parent would have allowed her to watch him at her own home after school. If, and that's a big if, that did happen, the night she took him to a poetry reading and then put him to sleep in her house without contacting the parent, she would have found herself in jail. Just a lot of nonsense that can't happen today. In my opinion, it was just another "Ted Talk" on the normalizing of pedophilia as the teacher is proved right at the end when the boy is in the police car saying; "I have a poem," and no one listens to him.