Load of rubbish!!

Charming and brutal

Am I Missing Something?

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I actively hate and abhor this movie. I cannot think of enough words to express my disgust and distaste for this amateurish, exploitative refuse.Let me get a few things out of the way first. Yes, this is a blatant rip-off of "Elephant." Yes, this movie is cliché ridden to the gills. Yes, this movie deals with delicate issues indelicately and flippantly. Yes, this movie is filled with amateur actors and a first time screenwriter and director, and yes, it shows.(Can I stop right here and offer an aside? I refuse to believe that the good reviews offered on this website are in good faith. I think someone is padding their bra, or else the idiotic unwashed masses are even more ignorant than I initially believed.) So, after all that I think the real problem I have with this movie is all the f'ing crying. Give it a rest. Lighten up a bit. Throw in a joke, something optimistic.Something realistic. You people think this is what high school is really like? Where did you go to school? Days of Our Lives High? The incest scene is not realistic, it was simply stupid. The suicide scene was not a dramatic Kaiser Soze twist. It was exploitative, gratuitous and cheap. That character was ancillary, she had a few minutes of screen time. Let's pop her in at the end and have an overly graphic, exploitative, bloody mess of an unintelligible suicide...Idiotic. I really want to punch the director in the face for making this tripe. And I'm annoyed at others for propping it up as something other than what it is.There are movies that are so bad they are good. This is not one of those. This movie is blatant plagiarism and an insult to film making. Seriously, do yourself a favor and avoid this at all costs.By the way, to those aussies propping this movie up because it's an Aussie film: give it up. There are real Australian movies to back, and this is not one of them. I just saw "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand" again, and that's something worth watching. This movie is double derivative excrement, and that's going easy.I think the biggest notice of how intensely I feel about this film is the fact that I was motivated to write a review in the first place. I've never written a review, this is my first. I've seen many fantastic films that have changed my life for the better. I've also seen loads of dreck. I watched "Hobo with a Shotgun" and I said to myself "Boy, that was a crappy movie but I can find some redeeming values in it." I wasn't even close to being motivated enough to write a review. But this movie did it for me. Kudos. You've driven me to act.

'In high-school everyone feels pressure.' 2:37 starts with this sentence. So one can guess that the film is about life of the students of high-school and the difficulty of their life. Being a teenager is often hard because the teenager thinks that life is against them. In this film usual teenager problem is carried out. For instance, there are some students desire to succeed always, to fit in, to be perfect, and to be normal. One can come across this typical person in real life.The characters in this film was really good when they acted their roles. I like all of them but I like some of them most. They are Melody, Steive, and the girl who kills herself.Melody was lovely and calm girl. She was raped by her brother and then she became pregnant. And she called her mother but she didn't take enough concern. In this part of film one can easily observe the effect of indifferent parents on their children. The children who don't take enough interest feel alone and some time later they commit bad things.Steive is really a man that should be appreciated because he is a sample of determination. No matter what happens to him he just put up and doesn't give up. And he is also patient because he doesn't stand against his deficiency and the criticisms from his friends. So I like him and I will take into consideration his patience and manners.And I like also the girl who kills herself. She is quite ordinary. But one can understand at the end of the film that she feels all of her emotions inside of hers. When I noticed that the one who committed suicide is she, I was really confused at first. But after I thought of her, I acknowledge her to be right. Because she has nobody to explain herself.And finally, I want to talk about the film generally. I like the music that played during the film. They helped me to feel the characters better. And the film managed to impress me.

This would be one of the best film of 2006. Very moving and very powerful. From the first few minutes, i was astonished, then at the end of the film, it felt like i was kicked in the stomach, i was so blown away. I think 2:37 is such a good film. It gives an even amount of character development in this. I really think it would be a great idea if they showed this film at high schools. And this film shows that you never know what's going on in someone's private life - which is an important issue to realize in a school setting. I don't think this film is trying to say "these are what your typical students are like" - rather, it's just an example. Everyone's different obviously, which is why some people hate this film and others love it. About soundtrack, it was both haunting and terrifying when the chatter of the school ground rang out over the music. Throughout the movie, I was a bit bored through most of it because the performances are mostly too melodramatic and solemn and the dialogue is mostly swearing. In spite of everything, this is one of the film before you die you should watch.

2:37 marks the cinematic debut of young South Australian filmmaker Murali K Thalluri. It's R-rated because of its theme of teen suicide. This event is discovered in the very first minutes of the film. We don't know the identity of the student who killed him or herself but the film goes back to the beginning of the day to track the lives of six teenagers who might or might not be the victim.Each of these young high school students are coping with problems, ranging from pregnancy to incontinence.2:37 copped a lot of criticism when it screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival this year because of its similarity in style at least to Gus Van Sant's Palm d'Or –winning Elephant, which was also set in a high school. Van Sant famously used long tracking shots and repeated moments in time from different angles to establish a day in the life of a school. And the similarities in style at least are unmistakable.But Thalluri gives much greater access to these teen lives than van Sant would ever dream of. Just about every teen problem from fear of one's sexuality to incest is represented.The performances from a group of unknown actors are impressive, they are reportedly fellow students of the director. But the denouement at the end leaves one with a feeling of having been manipulated, undoubtedly by a young man with talent, but manipulated nevertheless.It's hard to sort the chaff from the wheat with this one, don't you think David?