they must issue this plot outline to all wannabe filmmaker arrive at the hollywood bus station . they then fill in the blank and set their story in whatever hick town or urban ghetto from which they just arrive . you know exactly what this movie be about from the opening shot and four young boy play in grainy slow motion and accompany by voice over narration . next stop after the bus station must be to buy stock footage of four young boy play in grainy slow motion . once theyre grown and it easy to spot the writer or director among the four . he the quiet and contemplative and long haired one who be never see without his composition book tuck in his pant . this mean that his superb write talent will be his ticket from hickville to hollywood . only there no writing and or direct talent on display here . and if you still can not figure out which one he be and here a hint represent the auteur and his character have the same middle name . it take over an hour to figure out that these twenty something men be suppose to still be in high school . what look like a prison be apparently a high school and the warden turn out to be the principal . once more and the poor and misunderstood rebel can pound everyone in the movie into the pavement and murder and pillage and but be powerless to stand up to his alcoholic father . how about hit back and kid and like you do everyone else . numerous fist fight scene for no apparent purpose . howlingly bad dialogue . many scene badly out of focus . cartoon character keep pop up a bit player and extra and draw unintentional laugh from the premiere audience . overact in the extreme . and if you do not quite get the self important speech and or the slow motion scene and just listen to the overbear music . it will clue you in and what youre suppose to feel . poor marisa ryan must be rack up lot of frequent flier mileage a she travel around the country work in these amateur regional film . the big sin be that the audience be suppose to feel sympathy for kid who gun down old lady and run over puppy chain to a tree and rob and steal and all the while complain about their sad and sorry life . but if only we could get out of this hick town and go to college . yeah and that the ticket . why be it that every twenty something filmmaker believe that his life so far be so important and so interesting and that the world can not wait to see it onscreen . if this movie be as autobiographical a it seem and then the auteur well be look over his shoulder for policeman bear fugitive warrant .