Sunday, January 27, 2013

State's Evidence (2006)

A bunch of pretentious teens decide to kill themselves after their pretentious friend Scott brings a video camera to school and tells them he's documenting his last pretentious day on earth and is going to commit suicide.  Really?  So Scott's idiot friends are so soft headed that just because Scott is smugly blathering on and on about how freeing his decision is, they're all willing to kill themselves?  For the love of god, of course they are.

At first, Scott is put off by their suggestion of joining him since they haven't put the thought into it he has.  Plus the gang wants to get their own video cameras and document their last day on Earth as well, which will push the whole suicide thing back a day.

But when one of the kids suggests they edit everyones footage together, Scott thinks that is a great idea.  He believes the tapes will end up as state's evidence and will be studied to determine why they all killed themselves.

Scott and another teen reel off dialogue about the philosophical writings of Kant and Descartes, but they come off as pretentious, arrogant cretins trying to be intellectual.  It's like when kids think they're being really deep, but they really don't have a clue.  So angsty teens might think the rhetoric is meaningful, but otherwise it's just jibber jabber.

As in all plans that involve a group who are not all dedicated to the same ideals, one of the teens goes rogue. So instead of taking it as a spiritual awakening, or whatever crap Scott thinks he's selling, this kid takes it as a chance to do anything with no consequences for their actions. Oh yeah, this is going to be great.  Thankfully the other kids are horrified by this psychos actions, but at that point it's really too late, unless they do something other than go to sleep... oh, well so much for that.

When I saw this cover, I wasn't sure whether the teen in the middle was a girl or a boy. Turns out it's Scott, who is clearly a male in the movie, but that's one girly looking photo.

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