A great progressive film

The film's beginning is somewhat embarrassing, exploiting a cliched, idyllic image of teen college life: attractive, young and carefree. I thought it was shaping up to be a shocker.

But as the film progressed I began to feel that this may only have been done to lure the veiwer into a false sense of security. It quickly progressed to far more gritty material conspiring to a heartrending finale.

The message of the film is not to be taken from the actions of the students, which some would call disproportionate; but from their transformation throughout the film. The men that die at the end share only appearance with the boys who dance at the start.