first of all and this film be glacially slow moving and and i can see most viewer lose patience with it altogether in the first thirty minute . the film subject matter be one i think would form the basis of an excellent film while what be most lacking here be a plot that would advance the underlying theme . it unfortunate and because in the hand of a writer like ( say ) lanford wilson and i think symbolism like a mountain lion invade a school campus could take on great and tragic proportion without be heavy hand . i think and with a good script support the film and the same filmmaker and with the same taste and and even with the same actor ( who do not really even get a chance to impress me ) and might have be able to present a meaningful and touch depiction of the pain and struggle that a boy go through when he develop a powerful crush on an old boy that he admire . however and i be sorry to say that without this foundation and and arm with a vague and dull witted and and vastly uninteresting script and without any sort of plot in sight and and lack any sort of sensible structure ( for example and after view it and i believe you will find that you can not point to climactic scene and and instead and will find yourself enumerate well and maybe that scene and or that one and be climax . ) the result be 95 minute of tedium . without a good plot and we never get terribly interested in any of the character while their trial and difficulty be simply dull and boring . without a good plot and dramatic device and surrealistic directorial liberty become puzzling and confuse rather than enhancement to the story line . i never really could believe and for example and the creation of leah and i think that most viewer would be utterly baffle by the conventional way in which her telephone call be film . a the film stand and i be afraid it one i can not recommend at all . what i can never understand be why a film like this one isn not re make by an enterprising film maker . instead of all the mediocre remake of film that be superlatively good in the first release . all it need be a good script and write by good writer and and i think this film could be easily turn into an unforgettable classic about an aspect of male come of age that be rarely treat in drama . all the element that be so tedious and seem so recherche in the film ( the message write on the boy belly and the leah scene and the television screen fantasy ) could become rich if underpin with a good storyline . i see in quite a few comment that people be talk of this film a somehow be about a gay subject and and i think that mistaken . obviously and the crush depict be that of a newly pubescent boy on an old adolescent boy and but the character of logan be far too young to have settle on any particular sexual choice and and and indeed and in his depicted masturbation fantasy and we see all sort of stimulus and sexual and non sexual and a we would expect in a very young boy like him . i believe crush such a logan be common among male youth who grow up to have a decided preference for female sex partner .