Osmosis Iron About school bullying clashing with teen pride. And how messed up things like this sometimes can get.. Emotional and somewhat disturbing story with an ending that will stay with you for at least some time. Will probably make you see some things in another light!

Igor Chamada I saw this movie not so long ago, on a free exhibition in Estonia. I checked first on IMDb and it showed 8 out 10 voting, which went against the first impression the movie plot gave me, "trying to recreate columbine massacre". Well, that's what it was for me, a try, and it definitely failed.The director was too lazy. Amost every scene in the movie is shot with (bad) hand-held camera mixed with fast cuts that could work on some fast paced scenes but definitely ruin his attempts of trying to create a serious, romantic or minimally delicate conversation that happens sometimes, the empathy we should feel about the bullied kid is just not there. The plot is full of holes, characters are incoherent, with many plot holes where you can put your finger way deep. I don't demand explanations, i just felt some characters were changing personality every different day they went to school.The characters sound totally plot-driven, in a way that their actions are just bordering the surreal sometimes just to make the story work and keep going to the verge of the unacceptable. Anybody who has been bullied before or who has been present in such situations, know things can get hardcore, but man, how hardcore? By the way, where are the school janitors? Cleaning ladies in the corridor? Nobody? Only bully kids around? That school needs some monitoring.The movie wanted to depict the situations that lead kids to bring a gun to school and shoot around, and the director wanted to make sure the audience got it and stood by his side, by pulling the most ridiculous plot trick, a "have-pity-on-me" scene so that we can get on the side of the kid who's shooting and don't feel bad about it. I think that was the lowest and worst thing about the movie, along with terrible storyline where you never really get to know the relations between nobody since the script is only focused on the dialogues that tear the bullied kid's harmony.They divided the movie into chapters so they could use these fast-cut-guy-ritchie-music-video-style parts before the scene really started. It felt really out of context, because the story is told in quite serious molds, or tries to be, and i felt these parts were a sneaky attempt to wake up the short-attention-spam audience watching and get them back into the movie.The final shooting scene, well, you can't get any worse, whereas in scenario, in directing actors or just how it all develops. It doesn't look like a movie scene, it felt they were still rehearsing, the body language, the dialogues and the flow of action is too sloppy and looks too amateur to be the main reason why they made the movie.Directing is lazy, storyline is terrible, photography work is invisible, editing is sloppy and there is nothing in this movie that i could recommend to anybody except for the moral it teaches.Comparing it to Elephant? how dare you.

Pascal Zinken (LazySod) Almost every class in high school knows one: a lonely child that is being picked on by everyone. Unable to give proper resistance against the different kids in the class that one person becomes the victim of just about everything. Most of the time it ends up OK in the end, but sometimes it goes to a point of no return and then it ends in full flexed drama. This film is about such a drama.Starting out at the point where a kid is picked out as being the one to pick on the events that happen happen in just the right pace. The film switches between fueling the fire and licking the wounds, and later between fueling the fire and planning the counter strike. It becomes impossible not to feel a certain level of sympathy for the guy, even though his actions are unforgivable. And that is why this film works well. Klass is a harsh message and I think it should be shown to all kids in high schools to show them the darkest sides of peer pressure and the effects of it on some people.9 out of 10 difficult lessons

maj-solo The story does not feel authentic it feels in some parts manufactured. Parents behavior and the children's behavior is very believable, but I am having trouble with the principal and some of the teachers, not that they don't want to see, which often happen, but that they so easily buy lies fed to them, being senior as all of them are they should know better than so quickly threaten the very victims in this movie without investigating more. It seems manufactured just to prove the point that grownups don't understand.So the whole movie plays and you're sitting there seeing no solution to the root cause of the problem, and also feeling the director want no solution to the problem, and you are wondering if that is all this movie is about, to have an experience with no real point in the end.But in the end the point around which this movie is built is revealed. And it is a very important subject. The movie itself I give a 4 but since the subject is so important, reflecting recent real life tragedies, I add 2.And I share the writer/producers possible view that with 95% certainty what is shown in the movie is the cause of tragedies like these.