pretentious, narcissistic, pseudo intellectual, neo-conceptual garbage
This film is a pretentious, narcissistic, pseudo intellectual, neo-conceptual piece of garbage. And I will tell you why.
First of all shooting the film nonlinearly is completely pointless, except to make it artsy fartsy, it also takes what little suspense there could have been out of the film. My biggest problem was the way he justified telling the story in this manner, by adding that on expository line, about how he is not a good writer so things are bit mixed up. Gee thx for clearing up why this film is shot in such a pointless way.
I also felt the acting was very poor, either that or the writing was very bad, actually I think both the acting and the writing was bad.
Ill start with the writing, ok high school kid do not talk like that. I know I never talked like that, and I don’t know anyone else who talked like that. All the dialog seemed to be very expository. A lot of it was either explaining something that just happened, or letting us know exactly what each kid was thinking the writing basically did the acting for the film.
Like when all those kids got called to the office, and then that one kid sits down and says “why are they calling all the skateboarders to the office” you might as well just put a big subtitle on the screen saying “and now all the skateboard kids were just called to the office… just letting you know case you where to stupid to figure it out yourself” and that’s the same kind of unnatural, synthetic dialogue throughout the whole film.
The entire narrative was so poorly written, and don’t tell me “oh it was because it’s suppose to be written the way the kid writes and since he’s not a good writer it’s not written well” because that’s not an excuse for a bad voice over or for bad writing. The voice over sounded rehearsed, and it sounded like the kid was rushing to get to the end, it had no flow and it didn’t breath.
Now I’ll talk about what really makes me dislike the film, and that the whole pseudo intellectual, neo-conceptual art aspect to it. Now I know some people love neo-conceptual art for whatever reason they think it has deep intellectual meaning or some crap like that. But even if you like that junk this movie is still insulting to anyone with any shred of intelligence. The film is basically an hour and a half of bashing us over the head with metaphors and symbolism's, in order to be artsy. And before you attack me with your automatic response of “oh you don’t like it cause you don’t ‘UNDERSTAND’ it” guess what I get it, yes that’s right in my infinite wisdom I was able to understand the metaphors and the similes, how could I not, they were so blatantly obvious I think mentally challenged wombats would have picked up on them. Let’s take the title for instance, can you be any more obvious, I don’t think the blind def kids in the back picked up on it. maybe we should call the film, “broken children in the gripping struggle of life try find themselves but unfortunately fall victim to an ill-fated accident that consumes their very life with feeling of depression and paranoia” or, maybe that’s to long winded. At any rate this kinder garden symbolism is prevalent throughout the entire film. I found it very condescending, and degrading to my intelligence, it’s as if the director thought I would be too stupid to pick up on subtle symbolism he felt necessary to assault me with frivolous “deeper meaning” imagery and sounds.
Sorry but if you find this film genius and intellectually stimulating, you’re probably greatly lacking in brainpower, or else you’re just trying to look smart amongst elitist pretentious snobs.