i will try to be brief about this film because i can not imagine anyone will ever really watch it . the only reason i even rent soemthing like this be because the woman i be date think it look good and she recommend it . she have excellent taste so i agree . oh boy be we in for a shock . she hat it even bad than i do and she end up fast forward a lot of the dialogue in the film just so we could get to the big secret . the problem with the movie be that it take so long to set everything up that by the end you can not wait to find out what it be just so you can turn the movie off and watch sportsdesk . the young boy problem become annoy . sure and at the end we can empathize with him and all that he go through but that do not make the film a good one . trauma be a weird thing and i guess it affect everyone in different way but i just do not buy into why the young kid become unable to talk . hey and here an idea while if you be threaten by the local sheriff that seem to do everything the wrong way and tell someone . his backward as tactic would have get him bust long before this movie do . when the film be boring and move at a snails pace and you do not really like any of the character in it and then you have a problem . lock in silence should have stay that way . it never should have be give the green light . this be proof that not all true life story need to be tell and make into a film . absolutely terrible . negative .