A simple story in impact with a complexity and uniqueness in vision that amazes. Films like this show you the utter simplicity of human emotional needs, which shows you how simple life itself is despite the grand mess we make it. Your own concerns, and the great debates we dabble in, seem rather insignificant when you watch this powerful and potent story of an 18 year old girl, Meg, and the world around her.

To summarize the basic plotline tells a seemingly typical structure. A teenage girl whose father is gone, whose mother is emotionally absent from her, whose younger sister has been hit hard by the situation, and who longs for concern and attention and finds it in her poetry and a teacher who nurtures it. Don't be fooled. A film is only as good as its experience, not its plotline, and this film excels beyond expectations.

It tells in a very real experience how appreciation and companionship, any kind of human connection, is all a human being really needs and strives for. We so often lose that, sometimes searching out alternatives to replace it, but 'Blue Car' so poignantly shows it both in Meg, and more drastically in her sister Lily, that you can't help but understand. I left the theater feeling cleansed. It left me with a mixture of sad and refreshed, sad in my sympathy for her and her sister, refreshed in both her character's final change and in the fundamental message that seemd as a gift. I was truly skeptical before the movie, expecting the typical given what little I knew of the film. I was pleasantly surprised at what they did with what could have been very standard.

What always helps is an incredible cast, and this astounds across the board. Agnes Bruckner as Meg played her lead phenomenally. She played with skill an entire gamut of emotion and character, from vulnerable to empowered, from hidden excitement to hidden disgust, and everything inbetween. The young addition of Regan Arnold as the disillusioned and quietly screaming child Lily played her challenging part with such incredible sublety and depth that she blew me away. These actresses very much stole the film. And all the adults were played beautifully as well, with both depth and complexity.