Comparing this film with GUS' "The Elephant", it is true that both the content and the shooting techniques are a bit too much for reference, but for a young and new director, it is already very worthwhile to have such a work. Admired.
Personally, I really like the narrative style of these kinds of films. Documentaries and narratives coexist and blend perfectly. The film director uses black and white monologues to express the documentary style, and color images to express the narrative style. At the same time, the film starts from flashbacks in terms of narration, in which characters, time and place are constantly alternated and overlapped. The same event is represented by different characters and different shooting angles, showing completely different emotions and sadness, which fully shows that in the big environment of the school, everyone's emotions affect each other in many aspects. The result of this influence, however, often leads to greater conflicts in life.
The most amazing thing about such a unique film structure is the director's unexpected ending. In the footage before the film begins, we always have a question about who the person who committed suicide is? Watching the whole film with such doubts, the protagonists are the 6 people who are being told. The director focused on their living conditions and emotions, so that we completely believe and even say that the suicide target can be identified from it. Because their lives are all ashes. But the director was not so foolish as to reveal such a stereotypical answer to us. On the contrary, the person who committed suicide almost fell below the glasses of all of us. We can't help but sigh in our hearts: why is it her? Of course, this answer is not directly expressed by the director in the film, but through the monologues of the six people after the film, perhaps we can draw some conclusions from it, "Sometimes, you hide yourself deeply... don't want to let Others know..."
In this way, the director buried Kelly's pain deeply outside the film, but skillfully showed a naked and bloody youth by portraying the sadness and helplessness of others. So that the audience can understand and experience Kelly's pain more deeply. In the last 15 seconds of the film, the picture suddenly changed to color, and the camera slowly zoomed in on Kelly who was lying in blood...
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