The Ballad of Jack and Rose

...Day-Lewis’ performance as wilful, terminally ill eco-warrior Jack is pitch-perfect...

...is about incestuous feelings, and about the father's efforts, almost too late, to veer away from danger.

...the film is precious in itself, off-putting and unresolved, less insightful than invested in its own eccentricities, making points that are more evident than it seems to think.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose is about philosophical conflicts played out in the lives of the protagonists. Consumerism vs. idealism. The future vs. the past. Progress vs. stagnation. Knowledge vs. innocence.