Review of Afterschool (2009) by Ross H — 18 Dec 2010
Um, well this was different...but not in a good way. Weird movie about a private school (you know the kind in movies, where every kid's parents are ultra rich) and the kids who go to them. Some of these kids are pretty screwed up and basically the filmmaker (Antonio Campos in his first full length film) focuses on one individual named Robert (Ezra Miller).
He is doing a school video project where he is filming inside the school. It is there when one day as he is filming the hallways when two girls come out of a room screaming and bloody, falling to the floor.
We later learn that it is the two twins that go to the school that were in the film. Also we learn later about their demise. But mainly the focus is on Robert and his connection with the internet (about what he is viewing) and his disconnection with people around him.
He befriends a girl (Addison Timlin) named Amy who becomes his coworker on the film which becomes a tribute to the two twins later on. A slow moving film with nothing really anything that interesting going on in it.
Also the director has this annoying habit of framing a lot of scenes where you will see a part of the character who's talking or will focus on a part of the character's body when he should be the main focus of the story! Don't give me stupid framing shots, if you want to do something different with a camera that's okay but frame the movie so I can care about what's going on.
Another thing is that there is hardly any character that's really likable in the film, there's nobody that you're really rooting for and that's too bad as well. For me not a great start for a career.
But you check it out and let me know what you think.
This review of Afterschool (2009) was written by Ross H on 18 Dec 2010.
Afterschool has generally received mixed reviews.
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