Film Noir in and around a modern high school in San Clemente, California. Not quite tongue-in-cheek enough to be amusing and not quite serious enough to be emotionally engaging.Still, I was fascinated by the stonewashed scenery and to some extent by the earnestness of the stylised dialogue, replete with out-moded 50s slang straight out of a Raymond Carver novel.
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I was baffled by the over-the-top noir dialog until I realized that without this hook, there was not much there there...it just seemed odd, a more-or-less naturalistic film with these stylized bits--no doubt a symptom of the writer-director's youth and inexperience.
I guess I was more annoyed by the film than anything else...:)
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