Monday, January 16, 2012

RANT - Ecstacy

I'm not sure if the film's title describes one of the many drugs this group of party-mad girls tries out, but whatever it was this film is either required viewing for parents of teenage girls, or the last thing you'd ever want to watch if you were one of those parents - I can't decide.

The movie is a mess, a mish-mash of clubbing, whining, pill-swallowing, and the all-too-predictable disastrous results from that.

There are some weird suggestions - one that the local priest is drugging the congregation by adding crushed tablets into the communion wine - but that thread seems to lead nowhere. So we're left with middle-American youth in deep trouble.

Truthful perhaps, but not particularly entertaining.

If the director wanted us to learn that pills and techno lead to a miserable life, he succeeded. Other than that, I don't see the point in this movie.

And to cap it all, the film has a deeply unsatisfying end.

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