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okay, so what we got to see, was a quite ridiculous story about a boy who wanted to be cool and pays a great price for it. it's a simple story and the movie is too short to fully work it out. that's a pity, because of that we never really get to find the spirit of the picture, which allows the film to get unbelievable. the characters are cute, that's not it, but you really get the feeling the book by Hugo Claus would be much better. I haven't read the book (yet), so my opinion is based on interpretations, but if you see the male protagonist walk besides a gang of young outcasts, you can almost be certain his admiration for the 'bad guys' are much more and better explained in the book than in the movie. in fact, there can be no movie based on a Hugo Claus novel, that's better than the book itself. if you can live with that, this short movie will be exactly the right one for you.