Utilizing the low-key minimalist style that he revisited in Gerry, Van Sant manages to make a powerful impact with the smaller moments in life that playout in long tracking shots, very little dialogue and his trademark cloud images. By hiring real highschool kids with little or no cinema acting credentials gives the surreal world a sense of realism that is frightening, sad and silently haunting.
It never tells us why such horrible acts would occur but forces the viewer to question it instead without heavy-handed melodrama which most film-makers would be tempted to overplay.
3½ Gerry video games out of 5
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