Social Suicide

This doesn't contain actual spoilers, except that I am extremely weirded out by the fact that the little twist at the very end was already known like almost half an hour earlier in the film? What was the point of it? Did the earlier scene escape being cut out because it already revealed it?

Aside from that, this was a rather slow, meandering film, taking too long to get into its core theme, but then without the meandering padding it probably would've been too short to be a full feature-length film.

There is something of an extremely minor "Romeo and Juliet" vibe, but this is purely superficial and not at all important to the plot or the theme as a whole. "The Untouchables" would be a more apt comparison.

Unfortunately for the subject matter chosen here, apparently teenaged obsession with "likes, clicks, views" etcetera, is given the painfully dumb "wots all this youtubin wit these kids now innit?" treatment, where the whole "social media" and technology stuff is treated like something literally as dangerous as heroin or something. It comes across as buffoonish at times, although happily it is nowhere near as heavy-handed and on the nose obvious as "Black Mirror" which has flailed with similar concepts multiple times.

Not even worth watching to see Olivia Hussey & Leonard Whiting together. (Their appearance comes in at 38 min mark & lasts about one minute.). - Sure made me glad not to be a kid in today's crazy world. -If you want to watch Romeo & Juliet, the 1968 version (that Zeffirelli directed) is the ONLY one to see.

This movie was refreshing. I do enjoy the way they combined it with recorded video style and of course i love the plot twist. I don't know why people hate this, maybe they got mislead by the synopsis, this movie was not focus about 'romeo and juliet'. It was more about suspense, how social media 'gone wrong'. It is pretty relevant for our generation nowdays. People who are falling in love can be really dumb and easily tricked. I think Balthazar was kind of having narcisstic, manipulative and antisocial disorder, he successfully made me hate him so much.

It is wort to watch, give it try

The performance and the social commentary about the uses and greed of social media was phenomenal.

The best part of this is that the actors playing the star-crossed lovers of Franco Zeffirelli's passionate screen Romeo and Juliet from the sixties appear as julia's Mother and father Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, good idea for a film as well