Sadly Over-hyped

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

We watched this film in class in order to hear the Australian accent. Because of this I focused on the player's speaking more than subject of the film. But as watched from the beginning to the end I thought that how the nonsense film because anybody in this film feel happy in any moment. And I do not like such a drama films very much especially in a crowded areas like class while everybody commenting. Except for this I think there was a no connection between events. I think the director and the scriptwriter wanted to us think about events and correlate them each other. And I tried but sometimes I could not correlate them. End of the film we all thought that the fat boy took his life, but when we saw the girl in blood we surprised. And I thought that she extremely right because she felt unhappy, alone and she is in depression. Until I watched this film I had found taking someone's own life nonsense but if I were her maybe I did the same thing. And in this film this depression that she in reflect the audiences successfully. I liked this film very much in this aspect.

When the movie started i felt the perfection.For teenager education parents should watch this movie.The movie shows the reality of life and gives examples what students face each day in the school.Really touchy movie and and catchy story that i never forget in my life.To be honest mostly people think life is colorful and worths to live after the movie there is obvious message that life is not that such colorful.The love, tears, laughter and many feelings i had when i was watching this movie.It shows somehow the pointless ways of life and the tragic coincidences of life.

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?

In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, et al., tried to present American high school as a la-de-da-da musical experience in the ANDY HARDY bushel of movies. Though life did not turn out to be a bowl of cherries for either of these stars, that did not prevent tons of subsequent high-school-is-such-a-happy-place, we-all-have-to-sing fairy tales including GREASE, FOOTLOOSE, HAIRSPRAY, the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL trilogy, the current GLEE television series, ad infinitum from being foisted upon the public. Just as millions of high school football concussions go a long way toward producing an all-volunteer military, thousands of singing 20-somethings posing as teenagers lull parents who have repressed their own prep memories into thinking maybe school ain't so bad nowadays. Conversely, high school as one big party was epitomized with FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF in 1986 (perhaps to ease the minds of parents realistic enough to admit their kids can't carry a tune). However, many kids would rather "play" in Jigsaw's torture warehouse than attend their assigned high school. From the twisted societal pigeon-holing that messed up Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty's characters in SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961), to the horror show director Richard Kelly placed DONNIE DARKO in (2001), or the Columbine re-imagining Gus Van Zant accomplished with ELEPHANT (2003) and subsequent effort by Vadim Perelman to layer in the futility of youthful religious zealotry with his THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES (2007), it is clear that high school is more something that happens to you, as opposed to something you can control (as in Andy Hardy's unrealistic refrain "let's put on a show" to solve every problem, or the implausibly unpunished charmed lives led by Ferris Bueller's ilk).In the masterful 2:37, director Murali K. Thalluri consciously adopts Van Zant's story-telling style to show the underside of high school life "Down Under." Accurately portraying high school as a cesspool of hypocrisy and callousness where children are finishing the job of transforming themselves from comparatively innocent short people who tell it like it is into the self-centered liars society expects them to become by graduation day, 2:37 deftly reinforces the notion that it's the quiet ones you have to look out for.