The overriding narrative is not what we see, but a collection of instant messages exchanged among the characters we see. Its the multiply nested structure that makes it work. Usually, we ignore this in film, because sex and role are inherently more cinematic. Sexual drives and identity vacuums of course, but subordinated to the more overwhelming urge to be part of a cosmic story. Gang dynamics involving intense humiliation. You'll encounter death, teen prostitution, rape. Its a simple chord to strike, but one we all know, both from when we were that age, and from how we live now, which is only a half degree separated. The matter of this concerns teen alienation, particularly through how we/they take things that happen and weave them into whatever simple, grand narrative is available usually through commercial pathways.
You will fall into it and really be influenced, much more viscerally than say "There Will be Blood," where there is no path for us to enter the world we watch.
I think you'll have to train yourself to watch films lucidly, but if you do, this will be quite effective. Its yet another dip into high school angst, overly long and structurally a bit too cute. If you are an ordinary viewer, you probably won't like this. The most significant benefit I get from writing IMDb comments is that readers lead me to them. I don't know why I bother with Hollywood when there are so many rich projects like this hiding in corners.
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