This movie was described to me by my sister in this way: ”a high school detective story with a pulp fiction, underground feel to it”. That’s precisely what it was.
IMDB says:
“A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.”
Seems about accurate to me. It’s a movie filled with twisted story lines, quirky characters, code words, and obscurity. I love it. It was just confusing enough that I hoped, with every minute, that the previous minute would be explained. So many ends were left untied, it leaves a lot to the imagination. And isn’t that what we want out of a movie? Really? Don’t we want to be left guessing?
Every new clue has you putting two and two together, and in its unpredictable way the movie is constantly calling you wrong, and at times it can be almost frustrating. I remember I spent the first twenty minutes in a state of: “he’s who, and she’s a what? Why’s he doing that? Who wrote that note, if she didn’t?”
I remember me ‘n my sister turning to each other and saying: “I wish high school was like that”. So, maybe I don’t, because I’d hate for that many people to die in my high school every, like, week. The movie made you feel like you were drowning, and every time you breathed for the surface, you longed again for that inability to swim.
By the way, the trailer’s bad ass. I dug it up for you.
The main character looks like my brother. Ah, ha.
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