at 2 represent37 and a high school student commits suicide . not show who have take their life or reason know and time skip back to the start of the day . from here we follow six separate student while marcus and melody and luke and steven and sarah and sean . each student be struggle with their own moral dilemma and all reach boiling point and hit to an end for one . after lose a friend to suicide and and survive his own suicide attempt and writer or director murali k. thalluri have create a revet drama focus on teen life and the horrible act of suicide . suicide have be a topic that have be keep in the shadow and 2 represent37 be thalluri attempt to bring it to light . if you have be touch by the act of suicide or anyone who have and 2 represent37 become all the hard to view . with heavy and hard subject matter and thalluri also tackle everyday teenage life crisis . sex and pregnancy and sexual identity and bullying and friendship and thalluri manages and show them in an extremely realistic manner . the factor on thalluri talent be his subtlety . he respect his subject and the problem that everyone will have suffer through at sometime . it verge near documentary at time and it have such a painful realism while the interview with each character splice through the film only heighten this . 2 represent37 have a distinctive similarity to gus van sants film elephant . while the core of each film be different and both tackle teen life . like sant and thalluri utilizes long track shot and with time skip back and forth and to show each character interaction from different perspective . a define point to elephant be it ethereal ambiance . with spare conversation and little development of character and and the long tracking shot and sant create a haunting and mesmerizing atmosphere to a come dread . while there reside this dread in 2 represent37 and the emotional connection to the character reach a high level sant couldn not reach . a time go by and each character fragility creep out and drag you along their emotional roller coaster . the real hit in this film come with the inevitable suicide and foretold at the very begin . the hard part about this scene be the complete intrusion and discomfort we have a an audience watching someone life end in a gruesome fashion . though many film that have show suicide and gloss over the act or romanticize the act . thalluri show the pain and agony involve with this act and that it not the best solution . with unknown in the lead and their first major role while teresa palmereach and frank sweet and joel mackenzie and marni spillane and charles baird and sam harris all show immense talent and promise act career . compelling and revetting and 2 represent37 be an absolutely unmissable film .