Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Afterschool (2008)

 


I know it's not their fault they have to wear ties and blazers. I don't hold that against them. But I've always had mixed feelings about wealthy prep school students.

Cute but unhappy Ezra Miller is a boarder at a co-ed prep school. He watches a lot of degrading, violent porn and morbid internet videos. I averted my eyes for some of it. I don't want to see some kid fall off his bike and hit the pavement face first or Saddam Hussein's execution. Why should I be traumatized, too?

Ezra joins the AV club. He's filming something when he captures two twin girls, co-eds at the school, overcome by cocaine that turns out to have been laced with rat poison. He's of no real help to them but he appears to comfort one of them as she lay dying.

Everyone sympathizes with the poor boy who had to have been traumatized. It turns out all those videos he's been watching prepared him for it, but in a really awful way.

And he'll probably get into Princeton.

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