I think this Australian film has to be one of deepest and darkest drama films I've seen.This film is brilliant, an excellent as the story, but you will absolutely find it shocking and disturbing.The beginning scene showed that someone committed suicide at 2:37 pm in school, but don't tells me who did die, so the story begins tells from the start of the day, there are 6 main teen characters (Teresa Palmer's character is one of them). All these main characters had own personal problems, and it will make you wonder who one of these will kill himself at the end.It has terrible life stories and dark secrets, but this is what high school is like for many people. It's like the movie of the show "13 Reasons Why" from the 2000s.In the fact, Teresa Palmer was discovered on the street and cast in this movie without an audition and without ever having acted before. She was obviously the reason why I watched it lol. She gave a superb performance and her character had the darkest story.

(This film is now in my favorites list.)First of all, I like watching suicide themed films because they are depressing and make me cry. I liked the story line very much and expected a lot from this film, though I was a little bit worried about how they are going to tackle such a serious issue (suicide). The beginning was nothing extraordinary. Six teens introduce themselves as they talk to someone, probably an interviewer. We start to see each one's personal life and struggles and the film switches from one teen to another. We learn that all of them suffer from depressing thoughts and deal with their own personal hell, whether that means a strict/absent parent (Marcus) or an embarrassing medical condition (Steven). What made the film incredible for me was that I could relate to most teens on many levels and I thought the screenwriter and director did handled this very sensitive topic incredibly well. Also, the actors were considerably believable.The way this movie is filmed makes you sympathize with all 6 people to some extent. It doesn't make excuses for the heroes' actions but it explains why they do what they do and you can feel for them. I felt like I was back in high school for once more. The bullying theme is very strong in this film, which is another issue to pay attention to.The end came with a twist which I had predicted. The person that has committed suicide is not among the six teens that share their feelings for the documentary, it's the girl (Kelly) that had no one to share her feelings with. All other characters have some sort of connection with someone. Steve has Kelly asking him if he's okay, Marcus also talks to Kelly, Melody has a girl friend etc. But we see Kelly all alone in each take, she's like a ghost, walking in the corridors and trying to talk to people and care for them while no one cares for her in return. All in all, I think this film is worth-viewing and watching again and again. It gives you food for thought. Suicide is no joke. People who keep their feelings bottled up are the ones who need help the most. We should pay attention to everyone and not only care about our world, our life, our problems because we could be missing serious signs that could lead to suicide. Especially in high school, teens are suffering from bullying and neither their parents nor their teachers can identify the problem. I am glad films like this exist so we can shed some light on this horrific trend.

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.