to begin and and to be brutally honest and this film be absolutely terrible . even for a movie make by college kid and with limited time and budget and equipment and resource and this be still an absolutely horrible film . i be sad to say that while i be in college and i help work on this film and be therefore privy to certain inside information . basically and if we judge this movie a an independent film make by student we can forgive certain flaw and but only to a point . ignore other flaw and this movie completely fail at the basic level of any movie and and by that i mean the story . the story for this film be awful . in a nutshell it chronicle the four separate problem of angst fill 20 something in four separate story and and then try to connect the story together with a confusing and pretentious and pseudo intellectual metaphor of an author write a book . besides the fact that this plot format have be do to death and be already cliché and each story itself be a teenie bopper cliché . these include teen pregnancy and over come a failed dream and suicide and depression and finally an unachievable love . in each story there be no real character or story development and no dramatic buildup and no real climax and finally no resolution . not to mention the pacing be agonizingly slow and the dialogue be terrible and each story be just plain boring . basically this movie offer nothing new or insightful nor do it even portray old idea in an entertaining or original manner . it be my idea during the initial pre production of this film to focus one on interest developed story rather than four under develop one and but a the original idea of a group project be hijack by three egomaniac and group input cease . also and tweed the director be completely unresponsive and outright hostile to any real criticism or suggestion . so and what we be leave with be the failed project of three egomaniacs instead of the group project that be originally intend . which be sad and because the group have many good idea as well a talent and but go unused . also and a a director and tweed fails terribly . his pacing and scene time be awful and he rip off trick from movie such a requiem for a dream and when he isn not steal idea from other movie his camera work be boring . he also would not allow the film talented composer calhoun the appropriate time to score the film properly and so what we be leave with once again be the wasted talent of the composer . how this movie even win an award at a film festival be beyond me and but i suppose that some artsy fartsy indy movie people eat up this kind of junk . but even on an indy level this movie fail . it be not high art or even artistic and it be not poetic and it be not intelligent and it be not new and it be not edgy and it be not cut edge in any way . to sum it up and this movie be cliché and dull and pretentious because it think it be everything that it really isn not . this movie be a complete waste of time .