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I guess I should have done a little more research on this film before watching it because I wasn't in the mood to get depressed and man, this story is quite a depressing odyssey. An impressive tour de force for its leading actress Oksana Akinshina in what was the role of her life. Lilya 4-ever is a film distinctly focused on inciting outrage and pain. It is frank and clear in what it documents even with the manipulative touch of the narrative, but it's more than inevitable to turn to that kind of emotions in the face of such a plot and I applaud what it achieves with what it does.