how many more of those fake slice of life movie need to be make . hopefully not too many . raise victor vargas be a very self conscious attempt by the director peter solett at garner the attention of hollywood . nothing wrong with that in general . what be wrong with this film in particular be that it ignore the audience and pile on every cliché in the book of supposedly edgy hollywood independent production . it suppose to be real so left shake the camera documentary style and except no documentarian would shake the camera on purpose . it edgy so let not waste any time light the film . it hip and so let have the child use swear word like al pacino in scarface . and so on and and so forth . all that you be leave with be a very self conscious attempt at impress hollywood that would not impress anyone outside of the rarefied indie crowd that seem to still heap acclaim on every bad film .