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Un jour d'école ordinaire, Leland P. Fitzgerald, 16 ans, poignarde à mort un jeune handicapé mental. Il est aussitôt envoyé dans un centre de redressement pour mineurs, où il rencontre Pearl Madison, l'enseignant de l'établissement, qui va établir avec lui une relation privilégiée, contre la volonté de sa direction. Madison va immédiatement être intrigué par la personnalité fascinante de son élève, et au fil des entretiens, il va essayer de comprendre comment et surtout pourquoi il a pu être l'auteur de cette tragédie. Matthew Ryan Hoge s'est inspiré de sa propre expérience d'enseignant dans un centre de détention pour mineurs pour se lancer dans l'écriture et la réalisation de l'histoire de cet adolescent meurtrier fascinant et hypersensible. (Wikipedia)
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The story unfolds nicely in this coral movie which succeeds to be a study on mistakes, heartbreak, sadness and ultimately, human condition.
This movie is quite uncharacteristic for a Hollywood movie in that it is not clearly good and bad but mostly grey. The basic story seems strongly inspired by Albert Camus’ “L’étranger” (The Stranger) where a guy also kills somebody for no apparent reason. Here the movie also revolves around that subject and goes into different possible explanations. It also shows how different people are differently affected by the deed. But in the end, very unlike Hollywood, it leaves us with no clear answers but only with many things to think about. While I am not in line with some of the explanations and reactions given, that is exactly the point of the movie. It gives you different perspectives and lets yourself reflect about what you would have done. On the negative side, I find that there are too many characters that are not really introduced and thus you quickly start to wonder “who is that one again?”. Similarly, the movie works with many flashbacks, where it is not always clear to the viewer where we are in terms of the storyline. All in all though, a strong and quite intelligent movie.
Life feeds on sadness. Ok