Nobody seems to have any clue what set Luke off, why he would kill his family. Aaron reunites with Gretchen ( Genevieve O'Reilly), and they share memories of Luke, of Ellie. As seen through the present-day, where suspicion of Aaron still lingers, these flashbacks shed doubt on every single thing not only he says, but everyone else. Bana's grim and troubled demeanor shows how haunted he is at every turn by his young self, his young friends, the beautiful laughing doomed Ellie.Īs "The Dry" progresses, so, too, do these flashbacks, leading us closer and closer to Ellie's drowning. Luke appears to be pursuing Ellie (albeit in a rough-house way), while Aaron has a silent crush on her. The approach makes the audience the detective, trying to interpret the information provided. The flashbacks never show too much, revealing their truths slowly and inadvertently, sometimes jumping backwards or forwards. Editors Nick Meyers and Alexandre de Franceschi have done an artful and sensitive job creating a collage of the activities of the group of four friends-Ellie ( BeBe Bettencourt), Luke ( Sam Corlett), Gretchen ( Claude Scott-Mitchell), and Aaron ( Joe Klocek)-leading up to Ellie's death. Intriguing flashbacks, presented in subjective fragments, are sprinkled throughout the film, interrupting Aaron's present-day investigation. Still, though, Greg is a good cop, and has strong sense that there was something very "off" about that crime scene. He teams up with Greg Raco, the local police sergeant ( Keir O'Donnell), who is traumatized from discovering the bodies and inexperienced at investigating violent crimes. Against his better judgment, struggling with guilt and ambivalence, Aaron stays. Luke's parents, however, convince Aaron to stay on to look into the closed case: they believe their son could never have done such a thing, they think there might have been foul play. Aaron walks back into a hurting community, suffering from the drought, and still in a rage about what happened years before.Īaron's return is greeted with hostility by most town members, particularly Ellie's father ( William Zappa), who blames Aaron for his daughter's death. The scandal was so intense that Aaron's family left town and never came back.
Both boys were suspects in her death, and they lied to the police to cover their tracks.
Aaron's return to town stirs up memories of a scandal from 20 years ago, when a teenage girl named Ellie drowned under mysterious circumstances, circumstances which implicated both Luke and Aaron. This funeral is not your run-of-the-mill sad affair: Luke shot his wife Karen and their small son, before shooting himself. City detective Aaron Falk ( Eric Bana), who grew up in Kiewarra, returns for the funeral of Luke Hadler, a childhood friend.
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