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Brilliant again from van Sant, the shot making of a true genius, the out of focus depth of field pushed to its limits forcing the eye to roll round the image. Also one scene in the corridor going from over exposed to under exposed is mesmerising, not something the ordinary director would think of doing, normally the whole scene is correctly exposed. As for the story,its brilliant and deep, and makes you think of what would go on if such a ordeal happened to you.

Overall a brilliant 8/10 and both story and shot making is brilliant, one for all film students and film buffs to watch if just to be mesmerised by the visuals.

Like a super 8 film from the 70's/80's New York this felt like it was art created for the screen on a setting, the open plan falling down dilapidated building. Beautifully shot with scenes of the hills and fields that seemed to roll on forever.

The acting even included San Sant himself as well as Grace Zabriskie who is normally in David Lynch's films.

The story was maybe even too weird for me and didn't really get a resonance and stayed very flat, it was not his best but showed how he can make his films.

Although it was maybe too weird it still made me want to be there in that building, the place where creativity happens, as spaces like that spark imagination.

Brilliant, a work of brilliance by Gus van Sant, Makes you feel like you are there, feel like you are a student in the school as it shows the mundane parts of everyday school life inter wined with brilliant corridor movements and sound recordings, the slowing and filming of the sky and the thunder.

Another of Van Sant's brilliant films like Drugstore Cowboy, engages you into the role of the idea. Using kids, the students to play the parts of the 'Loosely based on the massacre of the Columbine High School' students similar to that shot and similar to the shooters, making them all feel ordinary and very mundane. Done in a documentary style, but acted unscripted.

A clear 8/10 and a must see for all, along with his other brilliant titles.