SPOILERS Born from the Chechen Belsan school hostage incident, this award-winning film is a personal voice that we so often don't hear in the world. You can spend more than the first half of this film wondering why you're watching it. At first I thought, "oh, this is about an abusive father." And then, I thought, "oh, another film about a dysfunctional family." There is only the very slightest hint of the true monster hiding under the bed. Only as the curtain drew painstakingly and slowly open, did I realize that we are looking at meteoric destruction resulting from a singular, most ho...