Oliver Ackland and Adelaide Clemons are students at a private Australian high school; they like each other but they're shy and kind of dance around it. Before the potential couple can get together, Oliver's step brother, and uber-popular king of the school Alex Russll, drugs her and he and his buddies rape her. It takes Adelaide a little while to realize what happend, she wants to go through channels and get Alex suitably punished, realizes he's too well connected, so threatens him with a gun, he taunts her that her life will be ruined if she shoots him, so she kills herself in front of a crowd at school. Oliver then plots a fatal revenge against his step brother.
Heavy stuff. Kind of stylized; unusual and sometimes confusing editing. Their aren't no adults shown in the film, just the teenage characters. Add the Australian setting and the whole thing seems kind of 'Off'. It's an after school special as explotation film. But it's very oddness makes it something of a hypnotic watch. ***
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