I'll try to make this short and sweet. The movie is slow and boring, but worst of all - it's irritating. The director tries to get cute with the camera and it just doesn't work - you spend most of the movie just trying to figure out who is saying what. (I've seen movies with innovative camera work - this is not one of them.) The plot is murky...there's no resolution to the story. SPOILER: you think the main character maybe killed one of the girls by suffocating her with a hand over her mouth, but you can't really be sure. SPOILER: if you pay attention to the dialog, you could even think his roommate may have killed them both inadvertently by trying to "drug" them for ulterior motives (early in the film, the main character suggests to his roommate - the drug dealer - that he could drug them; further support for this theory is: since his roommate was selling drugs all over the school...how come the 2 girls are the only ones who died? Why would the doses the girls bought contain rat poisoning, but other doses he sold did not?) - but again, you just can't really tell if that is what happened. 'Sorry - but I really dislike a movie where you basically know less about what happened in it AFTER you've watched it.
I also have to agree with the reviewers here who said the memorial video created by the main character was NOT insightful and honest, but just inappropriate and plain stupid (now that I think about it - it was a lot like the movie it's a part of).
Finally, I just want to point out an error in another review here, where the reviewer refers to a scene with students lining up and taking pills by saying "...all the students are now given daily doses of pills..." suggesting that the students were all given drugs daily as a reaction to the drug overdose deaths.
In the first place, had the reviewer paid a bit more attention: there is an almost identical scene earlier in the movie - well BEFORE the girls die.
Secondly, it's a common practice in most boarding schools that students are not allowed to keep and take their own prescription drugs...they have to go to the school clinic at the proper times to receive them.
This prevents abuse and/or selling of prescription drugs, while helping to lower school liability in case a student is not taking their prescribed drugs when they're supposed to. That's what that scene (and the earlier similar scene) was about - NOT a repressive school system forcing students to take drugs for their own good!
I guess I can't blame that reviewer for missing that - this movie is very easy to misunderstand. Very little of it is very clear.
I also have to agree with the reviewers here who said the memorial video created by the main character was NOT insightful and honest, but just inappropriate and plain stupid (now that I think about it - it was a lot like the movie it's a part of).
Finally, I just want to point out an error in another review here, where the reviewer refers to a scene with students lining up and taking pills by saying "...all the students are now given daily doses of pills..." suggesting that the students were all given drugs daily as a reaction to the drug overdose deaths.
In the first place, had the reviewer paid a bit more attention: there is an almost identical scene earlier in the movie - well BEFORE the girls die.
Secondly, it's a common practice in most boarding schools that students are not allowed to keep and take their own prescription drugs...they have to go to the school clinic at the proper times to receive them.
This prevents abuse and/or selling of prescription drugs, while helping to lower school liability in case a student is not taking their prescribed drugs when they're supposed to. That's what that scene (and the earlier similar scene) was about - NOT a repressive school system forcing students to take drugs for their own good!
I guess I can't blame that reviewer for missing that - this movie is very easy to misunderstand. Very little of it is very clear.
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