The most
emotionally powerful scenes in the film centre around performances in medium shots: Thelma and her crush Anja looking out at Oslo from a balcony; Thelma resting her head on her father's shoulder; Thelma and Anja lying in bed together in the morning light.
Somehow, despite riveting performances and many
emotionally powerful scenes — and especially fine work by Owen, Keener and Liberato — Trust winds up as a good, rather than great, movie that has something to say but doesn't, quite, say it as well as it wanted to.
Not exact matches
The film has an overall gritty feel, which adds to the realism, and some of the
scenes with Billy and Leila are surprising and
emotionally powerful.
The
scenes between Christine and her father might not be as
emotionally powerful as the ones with her mother, but they still spark emotion and feel very true to life.
Also, it must be stated that Woodley and Teller has terrific on - screen chemistry that make some
scenes within the film so
emotionally powerful and even caused several audience members to weep like little babies.