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4 stars out of 5. Here's why:


MARY "MOUSE" BEDFORD goes to an all-girls boarding school. Her roommates, PAULIE OSTER & TORI MOLLER, are lovers. The teachers, the students and their own families are so conservative that they wouldn't aprove it, so it has to be a secret. I'm so bad at keeping secrets that I wouldn't want to be in MOUSE's place. Well, I would, but for other reasons. Wink, wink.

After everyone finds out about their secret, TORI lies and says that PAULIE has an unrequited crush on her. After that, the movie becomes repetitive. Watching PAULIE publicly confess her love, and humiliate herself and TORI in the process, over and over again felt like overkill. I was constantly wondering "How does PAULIE still have the opportunities to do these things?" It seemed that every time PAULIE left a room after doing something forbidden, the teachers' minds were reset and forgot about it until she did it again. The headmistress knows about why she's doing it, so why didn't she give her an ultimatum? Aside from the problem of repetition, it goes against the image the makers are trying to create on this school. If it's so strict, why does PAULIE have so much freedom?

You can read the full review at http://vits-ingthemovies.blogspot.com/2015/07/lost-and-delirious.html and/or watch the review as a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-op45PTQJY

Any thoughts?

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