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Paul Teusner

Hey linz,

I appreciate your questioning the "payoff" of watching a girl kill herself. I too, have been around suicide too much to be eager to see it on screen, and while the blodd added to the realism, I also felt things ahppening in my stomach that I felt were unnecessary.

I also wondered whether the "whodunnit" element would distract audiences from really engaging with the characters and their development in the narrative.

But I have to say that the screenwriter's choice to have a relatively unknown girl is quite powerful. Given that the audiences weren't meant to know her well, meant she became a symbol. I interpreted the girl's suicide as that free, honest, real part of every other character that died in the film.

In the end the film became not quite so much about suicide as it was about the death of individuality, identity and humanity that every competitive school environment requires of its students to survive.

linzc

Thanks for that interesting take Paul - I hadn't thought of taking the girl archetypically. Makes sense.

darren

bought the dvd the other day, still havent tried to watch it again...

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