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I don't get it at all.....wtf???? someone please explain


basically the whole movie.

1) why were they committing suicide?
2) why couldn't anyone leave town?
3) what was the whole deal with the website/messaging (or whatever the postings were suppose to be) chat room?? what did this have anything to do with?

Why did her boyfriend try to push her way? And why didn't he want her in the "group"?

4) what the heck did the kid say to the cop towards the end (he was in a hospital bed)? Did he also try to commit suicide? Did he explain why?

5) what the heck happened at the end? What's with the lake? Cop setting fire to forest, why??

I really didn't get this, but making matters worse was the fact that sometimes I couldn't understand the accents.

I feel like this movie had a certain sinister emotion, but to much unexplained. head scratcher

>??? thx

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Oh yah!!! And what the heck was she cleaning him for a the waterfall?? Seriously? What happened to him?

thx again

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because HE *beep* his pants trying to commit suicide and obviously did not succeed that's way she was washing his ass

see you in the next life

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Cop setting fire to forest, why??


I guess he wanted to prevent further suicides by burning down the trees.

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I'd like the answers as well. I found the movie boring and depressing and several of the kids unlikable.

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1) why were they committing suicide?


You're not supposed to know a specific answer, but the movie presents different possible reasons.

2) why couldn't anyone leave town?

Leaving town meant betraying the friendship of the group.

3) what was the whole deal with the website/messaging (or whatever the postings were suppose to be) chat room?? what did this have anything to do with?


It was a way to commemorate the dead, just like the shouting their names. At one point one of the adults (I don't remember who, maybe Sara's dad) tried to explain the suicides by saying that these guys just wanted their picture in the paper; the website and the shouting was part of this explanation.

Why did her boyfriend try to push her way? And why didn't he want her in the "group"?


He didn't want her to end up commiting suicide.

4) what the heck did the kid say to the cop towards the end (he was in a hospital bed)? Did he also try to commit suicide? Did he explain why?


I don't remember his excact words, but it was something like: "We *beep* hate you", the adults, that is. This was part of the theme of the teenagers experiencing the extreme loneliness most teenagers do when they start growing apart from their parents and vice versa. You saw this in the relationship between parents and kids: The priest not appreciating his son ironing his shirt; the father that told his son to pay for living at home; the girl from the gas station who was kicked out by her father (and the teenagers using this as explanation for her suicide); and Sara and her dad slowly growing apart throughout the movie.

5) what the heck happened at the end? What's with the lake? Cop setting fire to forest, why??


The forest had become a symbolic place to commit suicide; he tried protecting the teens / his daugter by taking that place away.

I really didn't get this, but making matters worse was the fact that sometimes I couldn't understand the accents.


I watched it with subtitles, which I can recommend (I don't know if any English subtitles exist though).

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I hope this helps. I remember this tragedy very well, and was actually living in South Wales during the spate of suicides. There has never been a rational explanation as to why so many teenagers took their own lives but psychologists seemed to suggest that teenagers have a herd mentality within their own peer group, which might have been a contributing factor.

Brigend is a former mining town, very depressed with high unemployment and crime, and little to offer the kids when they leave school. Thus, the kids felt that the future would be as bleak for them as it had been for their parents, and this created a nihilistic
backdrop to their lives.

The cop set fire to the woodland to destroy the trees, which of course were used in most of the suicides (by hanging). A somewhat practical, if emotional, action.

The social services in Bridgend worked very hard with the community at this time, and the suicides ceased, but a quick Google check will illustrate that this has occurred in other countries, again without any logical explanation.

A real tragedy, and one that resonates in my memory all these years later.

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Nobody knows why. And the suicides have continued, at least as of 2013. That's what is baffling about this case.

You probably need to watch this with the subtitles on.

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