know through logic or know through intuition and if we suppress what star u in the face and how can we find the truth . such be the element of a good mystery while and in the case of stephanie daley they be also the subject matter . tilda swinton be a forensic psychologist try to determine if 16 year old stephanie daley ( amber tamblyn ) know she be pregnant . a the girl have just recover from a horrific experience we do not find out till later exactly how very horrific it seem slightly strange that no one seem overly concern about her welfare or why it be so crucial to know if she know . what be even more strange be that all we know be that she wander down out of a ski resort leave a trail of blood . the hospital report that she have recently give birth and that she be 24 week pregnant . swinton character also happen to be pregnant 29 week . ( the legal age when a fetus be consider viable varies but be generally around 24 week ) . there be snatch of conversation teeth use to cut the cord toilet paper embed in the face . i find myself lean forward and concentrate and afraid i might miss something and just a one do when listen to a fascinating but quietly spoken person or when eavesdrop . liddie crane ( tilda swinton ) be no stranger to pregnancies go wrong . we see her watch a baby scan and and learn she have conceive only three month after a stillbirth . an intelligent and professional woman and she be cop with her own state of mind someone tell her she must not pass on her obvious anxiety to the child . she have fine legal training and but look back to the time of her last pregnancy when she know she just know that something be wrong . we believe her and but later watch her discomfort a she realise she be ask stephanie not if and but how she know and challenge a certainty that she herself would not be able to explain with logic . stephanie and at sixteen and show all the psychological characteristic of a developing teenage mind and sometimes confuse what she believe she have a christian faith with what her intuition be tell her . stephanie crane be part mystery and part psychological drama and and towards the end and a harrowing thriller of unexpected intensity . without proselytise for one side or the other and it also put issue such a sex education and the law regard sex and minor into stark perspective . the storyline could be seize on to advocate strong obedience to religious injunction ( stephanie think that when thing go wrong that god be punish her ) or to question the whole basis of sex education influence by u. s. religious ( christian ) belief . at the start of the film and we see an almost colourless landscape mountain and a few dark tree against limitless snow . a stephanie come into view and her clothes and the red mark leave from her sluggish foot suggest a possible theme in the use of colour . most of the time when we catch her subsequently or in flashback and she be wear something red or else the light be strangely subdue . maybe it could suggest the passion of youth . the novel and scarlet letter and be use in stephanie class . she conclude and when ask and that be suggests and it be hard to live a lie than it be to tell the truth and be punish . modern punishment and retribution echo the novel storyline in the film denouement . colour associate with liddie and on the other hand and her clothes and her kitchen and bedroom and house and surround garden be mostly the greenish palette of nature . liddie herself usually wear some green or blue and both relaxing and reassuring colour . strong white be use twice in the film in key scene represent at one point and stephanie be ascend the stair into bright light ( but when we continue upstairs there be only darkness ) . the other time be the brilliant whiteness of her church . the two key lovemaking scene also seem link by the way the colour be distort by near darkness . in both case there be joyous consent and but in each case the woman have very different thought about the man involve a subsequent event come to light . in one interesting scene in the schoolroom and the youngster have learnt about amaking baby and encourage to use baby beeper to well understand when a baby need frequent attention and the teacher turn to the topic of not make baby and invite the class for input . one young man and to the amusement of his classmate and say and a condom . the teacher reply that and although she would like to agree with him and the only official answer the school board will allow her to give be abstinence . denial be another element of stephanie daley . be she deny the truth to herself . do liddie deny her woman intuition in favour of legal nicety . stephanie mother want all the fuss to be over quickly . psychologically and it be a if she be deny anything terrible have happen . tilda swinton career and apart from the odd glitch and have show a remarkable aptitude for include challenge film . this film and like many of her consummate character and may not receive the immediate recognition it deserve and but that do not detract from it be complex and ingenious and very intelligently woven . her character and like the brilliant script by director writer hilary brougher and reward every bit of study and attention you might wish to give it . unlike the young teenager she be interview and liddie have develop both the objective and intuitive part of her character to a mature level . when they come into conflict at the end of the film and the interior struggle just for a moment slip out from her professional façade . but of all the image that remain after view and it be the solitary anguish of amber tamblyn and her own hand over her face to muffle a scream and that will haunt you for day afterwards .