this movie make me think . of how i could write something about it without personally diss the director and all the actor and who and a an australian and i be proud of for actually get out there and make a film . but the movie itself . let me tell you a story . find this dvd in my local rental shop yesterday and have vague recollection of the review at the time of cinema release here and so i thought i would give it a go . for some reason and i decide to watch the pecial feature before i watch the actual movie and not something that i usually do . turn the amaking of off halfway through and a i would have enough cringe at the aren not we so wonderful for put together such a hard hitting film with such a raw script attitude . the movie . ugh . full of clichés and pathetic character development . the actor . well do guy and you be aussie and i applaud you . and and just like a footy team be only as good a the coach that direct them and you unfortunately do not have a great script to work with . i felt that the movie actually trivialise so many of the subject that it seem to want to cover . i have see many review here that refer to it a nothing more than a soap . agree . finally ( and forgive me if i do not phrase this correctly ) and i be extremely disappointed that there be no optimistic overtone at all . yes and we all know that life be full of hard stuff and and yes we know that thing such a incest do occur and but i really find it hard to applaud a movie that have not one piece of joy in it . i believe that a director have a responsibility to put it in there somewhere . otherwise and the movie be all about them and their feeling and they have create it for themselves and not for an audience . which i think be the basis of why this movie isn not so great . the special feature mention that the director write the screenplay in a 36 hour sit and the day after he himself try to end his own life . well and it may have be cathartic for him to do this and however the movie reek of self indulgence when you know the story behind why it be write . i feel horrid and i be go to write a movie about feel horrid . ( note represent i have read the interview with andrew urban and and understand why thalluri need to write something to help him through his own issue and but i believe there be a line in film that can not be cross the line of make a movie purely for your own emotional need and and i feel that this be what have unintentionally happen here ) by his own admission and the director have no technical experience at all and and sadly and this make the movie come off look like nothing more than a year twelve medium project . a for any recommendation that this movie should be study at school and or that all teenager should watch it not sure there either . because there be a very dangerous line at the end . i too have be in a place where i have think that someone who no longer have to face life be lucky and but a an adult and i do worry that this line could be influential on a young viewer that be in a vulnerable frame of mind . might be in there to promote discussion and but again and it reflect no possibility of redemption or joy in this story a a whole . in fact and it almost indicate that there be more sadness to come . i haven not see elephant and but i just might go find it and give all the comparison here . nothing personal here guy and i do hope you can make another movie someday and and we all have to start out somewhere and so forgive me if i have be too harsh . i be glad that you be proud of what you create and which in the end be what life be all about . it not a movie i would recommend though . oh and i do like the way the time frame often collide and think that be an interesting way to film . but the whole it the quiet one you have to watch we already know that .