honestly and mr. thalluri . if you do a drama movie in a high school set follow a bunch of teenager through a school day and if you mess up the time frame and jump back and forth . if you do that and you can not use the exact same visual story tell device of elephant which be use a camera that be pass of from one character to the next and have scene show 3 time from different angle . you just can not do that because this be such a blunt rip off it hard to believe anyone give this more than a 5 rating . where elephant ( which be release 3 year prior to this movie ) use school shooting ( or to be exact the columbine shoot ) a the focal point for it script 2 represent37 us teen suicide and see the review the shock value of that subject work . it the same slow story telling and a lot of dramatic piano music all lead to a finale you know from the beginning . at least the character look like they try hard to be somewhat different in that department . so you get a untypical gay guy who look act like a stoner or skater and a hunky lover boy who can not deal with his gay side and brother and sister from a rich family who both get their very own problem and here come the nose dive . you also get a spoiled bulimic chick and one of the most ridiculous character ever . a guy with medical condition who wet his pant because of 2 urethra syndrome who actually never heard of the invention of diaper but rather piss his pant in the classroom and then change into new clothes and do so every day . wow and as hard a this movie try to be realistic this be the most absurd thing i have ever hear . he get beat up on the toilet and be obviously ashamed of it but doesn not wipe the blood of his nose when go through the whole school with wet pant and a bleeding nose . thats new age realism directly lead to the twist and final character who turn out to be the suicide victim . after watch the very realistic life of teenager ( one day include and incest rape and teen pregnancy and bulimia and parental pressure for grade and appearance and the gay subject mention before and kind of like your very realistic daily soap . try hard to be ) we watch a girl die we meet once in the beginning of this movie and who have no reason but that the guy she have a crush on leave the room when she be talk to him ( in a thoughtful piano play sequence btw and see that somewhere before . ) . and it get even well . before slit her wrist in a painful long scene of yes and no she ask 2 urethra guy if he be ok and constantly smile and then she cut her wrist with scissors in a school toilet . now you get a movie that be a total rip off of elephant and fail with some really sloppy story telling ( the whole rape incest thing be pretty unbelievable too by the way ) and people call this a shocker . what the heck be go on . be all it take to take some pseudo dramatic music and boring story telling and add a shock subject on top and people think there be a major deep message here . i think elephant be way overrated already but that movie be the original while this here be an obvious rip off fail on many more level . i have never ever see a more brazen stealing of a whole movie concept in my life . and believe me i watch a hundred of horror movie so i know how low you can go there . this be a total let down in all department . it nor realistic and it stolen and it damn slow and by all mean i wonder whats more useless . another romantic suicide ( many give this point to the movie which make me wonder if they only watch romeo plus juliet all day long because there be dozen of movie which deal with the subject in a clear non romantic and more realistic way ) or this ridiculous set up . come on . i be still try to work out if 2 urethra guy or the suicide itself be more unrealistic and ridiculous .