Inspired by Guy de Maupassant's Pierre et Jean (1888), The Reckoning is a visceral drama cloaked in a knife edge psychological thriller. An inversion of the prodigal son parable, the film's disturbing intensity is unrelenting, the focus constantly shifting, layering, unraveling like its main character. Fast descending to a mayhem where objective truth is indiscernible, and full immersion to an open eyed nightmare involuntary.