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I started off enjoying this movie with its stylish visuals and neat soundtrack, but half way through I began to dislike it and by the end I absolutely detested it. The first suicide almost made sense since the little girl seemed sad and was almost granted a personality by the director. Though she wasn't in it long enough to develop much she sympathises with the Downs syndrome kid while the rest are all needlessly cruel, good reason to top yourself, probably not but maybe a kid of 13 *might* think so (I doubt it personally). The later suicides made no sense, they seemed to be added in as an afterthought. Why at all and why altogether? What kind of three teenage sisters would be in agreement to end it all because mummy and daddy burnt their records and kept them all in away from boys? Particularly when they didn't seem to even be bothered by the youngest sisters demise? It all struck me as exploitative rubbish. Sick drivel that really has no place in a movie aimed at a teen audience. This was supposed to be a stylish movie, it was. It also had a good cast but the story was horribly lacking and the 'message' if there was one was pretty sick. The ghoulish teenagers (overly geekish to a man or strutting around like John Travolta) were if anything more unsympathetic than the girls, stealing diaries and memorabilia and basically just not fitting in. These guys had some *real* issues. Why on earth phone up these girls and then just play pop records? Why be *so* obsessed with a bunch of stuck up bitchy blonde bimbo types (that was all they ever actually acted like) at all? As for the point of the film, what this movie seems to suggest is that if you are a teenager who commits suicide 1) It will be widely reported by the media who will all say how awful and what a shame it is 2) Everyone will remember you fondly for years, hell you'll be practically immortal! Both these scenarios are absolutely wrong. A) Your death will statistically go unnoticed by the media. B) Your friends will remember you as sad and pathetic if they ever remember you at all. Suicide is a tragic pointless waste. This film is the same. Avoid, avoid, avoid! - 2 out of 10 (Crap!) Joe Middleton 27/5/00
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