[quote name='kfkl']the fact that they gave the kids relationship homosexual overtones was really shaq-fuing stupid; the columbine kids (and all the shooting kids) have never been gay. it was supposed to be to show further isolation from society, but I think it could be construed as "gay people are bad" by the casual viewer[/quote]
i think it was more to say something like gay kids in high school have it even harder than the other kids who are ostracized and picked on. i still think it was unnecessary, because that's not something a lot of kids in high school can relate to. i'm pretty sure that most of the outsiders in high school aren't gay, but then again who knows.
i was really disappointed in the film. i almost went to see it in theaters when it came out, but a few people told me it wasn't worth the $8, and since they usually know what they are talking about, i skipped it. i finally saw it about a week ago, and wasn't impressed. i liked the part where the three girls go into the bathroom, just because it was unexpected (and kind of funny). when the first girl got shot, it was kind of cool, but not in a "oh my god i can't believe this" sort of way (lke the director was probably going for), but more of a "yeah, rock n' roll!" sort of way. i'm just saying that the director tried to make us care about the kids in that school, like they are just normal kids and they were just going about their normal day and we should feel bad or shocked about what was happening, but i didn't feel that way at all. the kid with the blonde hair annoyed me, and the kid with the camera annoyed me even more. heck, even the shooters annoyed me. it was just an annoying school.
i did like how we got to see how everything happened in the same time span from different points of view, but again, it was about kids i didn't care about and a story that wasn't very interesting.
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