Well there's a LOT of suspense and revenge and vengeance movies from South East Asia and every time I discover a fresh movie with a different angle I'm gladly surprised.
This one is even more refreshing giving the sheer lack-of-experience from the leading cast protagonists; both being female and extremely young but beyond their years in the movie.
Not only are the cast inexperienced but the director is as well as he was in his early 20's and still with high school fresh in his mind. I'm tired of reading so much emphasis on 'experience' now when it's so much more than that. Natural talent and ability and passion is more important.
The suspense of the fast-draw editing sequences is beautifully done. The bedroom scene when the discovery is occured is quite something.
It starts off very slow and casual. Typical aggressive high-school bullying and the culmination of a bizarre yet special friendship between the two leading protagonists begins to emerge.
One is being bullied and one is the hidden perpetrator and aggressor who becomes the victims best friend. There is a missing class mate and the story unravels fabulously. It goes from a steady high school drama film to an intense suspense movie extremely quickly.
It's quite short at an hour and a half so the madness is very quick. The big issue I have with the movie is that it didn't show all of the madness. You watch the end to realise this and the cuts are so aggressive that you soon realise that there could have been so much more violence in an extended feature Director's cut.
I'm sure it's about the budget. The movie had little budget and the director was using all sorts of resources to assemble a new team for this job.
It must have been very stressful hiring people with no experience as a director. Only being in his early 20's to make this is quite something as well. I'm very pleased that he made it as it is a great film.
Extremely strong debut. 8/10.
