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the music in this movie is completely mesmerizing, it brings you into the protagonists world....ryan daugherty is an impressive actor, not to mention f***ing hot, and i cant wait to see him act in other films....i can relate to how he feels in the film, it makes me wonder if ryan really felt what he seemed to be, or was he just portraying the character? julian, the director, did an astonishing job, the camera work was surreal throughout the movie. you have GOT to see this if you like trance, ambient, techno music.....i wish i could get the soundtrack...

This movie feels astonishingly like you are watching a documentary. The first time I caught it I thought I was watching Gummo, or some documentary. Like a documentary, sometimes plot structure is there or isn't. That disappointed me a bit but the second time I was willing to cut it some slack, and just take it in. I finally understood that this is a remarkable achievement. I prefer it without structure now. Movies which kick you between plot points never have a prayer of achieving anything this natural. So you don't recognize where you are at any point. Guess what? the other ninety nine percent of movies released any year are for you...

Ryan, the sweet dumb teen of the movies focus is drawn to serial distractions and fleeting moments with no sense of the impending squalor that awaits him unless he can develop a longer attention span. This IS exactly what suburban adolescence is like. I remember being this frustrated, aimless and nihilistically hopeless.

The suburban environment adults provide young people are desolate, unstimulating places of abandoned dreams, or dreams in holding patterns while the bills are paid. While that rubric is getting worn out in film, this treatment is very fresh.

Truffauts 400 Blows covers the aimlessness of boyhood in a similar way.

TRANS begins very promising, with an unusually natural acting style and equally unusual cinematography. With a documentary feel, we follow the adventures of a boy escaped from a juvenile detention center. His encounters are interesting and believable, but after about 80 minutes or so, the story just stops. What happens to the boy? We'll never know. Maybe we're not supposed to know. However, good storytelling involves a beginning, a middle, and an end. This film has no end, and therefore no story arc. This is a good first two acts of a film, but without a third act, there is no film.

The whole movie had a visceral feel to it. I could, believe me, feel the swelt of the Florida swamp. The boy is amazing. The scene, where he stands over the bridge, ecstatic after his escape, is stunning. So where some other characters.

If u can suspend yr judgement on the ending and want to "feel" the movie go for it. very sensual.

I'm not sure if I was watching the same movie as everyone else. The premise was interesting but the story went absolutely nowhere. The `Cinematography' was terrible. All hand held with hard zooms and pans sometime with with late focus which appeared unintentional. The shots were all ill thought out and the dialog seemed as if it was all improvisation (and bad improvisation at that). There was quite a bit of narration in the first 15 minutes, which just dies with the rest of the film somewhere in the middle. You don't get to know or care about any of the characters. However, there were some very interesting editing and musical soundtrack choices but in the end good editing and music does not a good movie make.