2:37

Great Film

I rented this movie, having no idea what it was about and began the movie only half watching it as I did other things. By the end of the movie I was in tears and online ordering myself a copy.

I hadn't seen Elephant by Gus Van Sant so I didn't feel like it was a rip off of that movie while watching it. I did rent Elephant afterwards and thought that movie was a complete waste of my time.

2:37 deals with many teen issues and I think everyone watching will either relate personally to one of the characters or know someone they can relate to one of the characters.

It's not fast paced, but this movie is worth taking the time to sit and listen to what the characters have to say.

Great writing and great acting! July 7, 2008

Very Good . . .

Some of the reviews align this with Elephant, yes, there are some similarities, like: it takes place in a high school, it's very segmented in the story telling - but that's it. It's really a very different product than Elephant. It's loaded with rebellion, hatred, bigotry, obsession, and a few others that would spoil it for you. Well worth watching and owning - I'll be passing my copy around to my friends. . . February 25, 2008

Depression creates feelings of lifelessness and so does this movie...

[written: 26-08-06]

2:37. A story about student's lives in a highschool, focusing mainly on the depressive moments of their experience of education and life, one of them commits suicide, but who? That's for the viewer to try and solve but not ever find out until the end.
I didn't realise this movie was based on a true story until the credits started rolling; so I kinda feel awful about badmouthing this movie since such a tragedy occured in real life. But honesty needs to be told, a tragedy occured through watching this film. You nearly fall asleep, roll your eyes and drum your fingers against the sides of the armrests in boredom.
There are about a million storylines which could have come straight from the actual grounds of a highschool. Adds to the realness of what happened? Probably. Good for audiences watching? Never. Lots of: "How are you"'s, "Good, thanks" etc, I'm sure you know what I mean. It sort of felt like watching Big Brother sometimes, lots of random conversations and happenings, occassional meaning in amongst the hollowness.
The switch to each character giving an interview to the camera, talking about their life lessens the impact of the drama and emotion of the film.
There is a character who is trying to hide the fact that he is gay from all his friends. American Beauty showed this in such a profound, dramatic way that it crashes over this movie like a wave in comparison. Still, those scenes were what made the movie more watchable and were my favourite of all.
A boy who has one leg longer than the other so he limps and wets his pants constantly, therefore getting teased. A candidate for the suicide, but shows little depressive or stressed behaviour when anyone provokes him.
The suicide scene was gory, explicit and raw. Too gory for my liking. Maybe it did have emotional value cause I cried at the end when the character was killing themselves. It was so graphic, lots of blood, crying and 'cover your eyes' moments. The character who commits suicide barely registers as a candidate for such an act and is barely shown throughout the whole film.
This movie was empty, hollow and tiresome. Whilst sitting in the seat I had a vision of one of those pie base pastries in which the inside can be filled with toppings of your choice. Promised myself at the moment to write in here that's what this movie reminded me of. If you asked me what this movie was like, that's what I'd tell you. Could have been made so much better. February 12, 2008

Interesting but very derivative

This film deals with some bold subjects, but it is extremely similar to Gus Van Sant's film, "Elephant". The style and setting copies Van Sant's film so closely that it really drew me out of the film. The problems of the various students were also rather meledramatic. Not nearly as good a film as Elephant. January 24, 2008

A STORY OF TEENAGERS

An Australian film available with subtitles in A DVD zone 2 edition at Amazon.fr. If you liked Larry Clark's Ken Park (Uncut Uncensored Version) [PAL], you'll love 2:37. It's about teenagers, school and death. Haunting." October 6, 2007

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