transcendent banality
It's been a long time since I was so involved in a movie where seemingly nothing happens, and which doesn't even give you a flicker of hope that something bold and dramatic WILL eventually happen. Much of this movie is composed of awkward, protracted silences (which only occasionally make the film's stark realism seem more implausible.)All you really need to know plot-wise is that the film revolves around a group of high-school aged (?) boys and the desperate attempts they make at injecting meaning into their vacation from school, although clearly none of them has the resources to go anywhere exciting, nor the psychic energy to renew the drab environment that they inhabit.
There's very little in the way of musical score or dramatic cuts, making for a film that absolutely has to stand or fall on the basis of its dialogue. When the characters do manage to stop being entranced by the boredom of their own surroundings and speak up, what comes out is frequently hilarious. Try to...
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