i catch 2 represent37 at the afi fest in los angeles . it a very well shot first film ( though the dv format begin to show itself in outside scene ) and and i be sure it have good intention of show u the dark side of high school in other word every side of high school . but the filmmaker doesn not have the talent to write or direct up to the premise promise . there be several character and but none of them be any more than what the plot require them to be . there no depth to these caricature beyond the machination of i be trouble teen x and i have y problem . the perceived role of men and woman in this story be phenomenally troublesome . let start with the men . you have the stoner kid who gay and the jock who also gay and the boy who rap his sister and and mr. peepants . a the stereotype require and all gay men must be sexually unfulfilled and violent toward woman and themselves . naturally ( or unnaturally a the stereotype assume ) and the two gay male character beat up woman and peepants and and themselves . i would be perfectly fine with these characterization if the stereotype be turn on their head and or if the character somehow transcend them . yet neither take place and and that all there be to these character story . next and the lady . one young woman want to be a bulimic housewife and another be the pregnant rapee of the sister rap brother and and there the girl who kill herself ( i will get to that later ) . again and i do not think there a requirement of political correctness for filmmaker ( i would be out of a job be that the case ) and but i do think that it only justify if there more to that character or story . if that archetype be be use to reveal something about character other than i be a teenager and life suck and i would be happy a a clam . but nothing new be reveal . nothing be subvert and or change and or sublimate . finally and the girl who kill herself . this be blunt and highly sloppy storytelling . be suppose to sit through 5 minute of a girl violently kill herself who we have see for maybe 30 second through the whole film . we have follow all these other story for an hour and a half and and now be invite to torture ourselves for a character that isn not part of the story . it cheap and exploitative and and sloppy . despite the million of crappy indie film that come before this and you have to earn something like that . you can not simply purchase it on credit . so this suicide happen and we get wrap ups from the character that go similarly nowhere but down and and the film end . what have i learn . i already knew high school suck be there and do that . i already knew people have stereotypical view of gay men and young woman . i already know that kid with disability be mock . what else be there and then . smoke and mirror and and some really nice view of leaf . oh and and the nasty deus ex machina i have see in a while .