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This
is an obvious American teen movie. Director David Guggenheim
has quite a lot of ambition. He hangs his story on three
youngsters who are students of the world's most popular
subject (media studies) and, as they exercise their brains
on the difference between gossip and news, they decide
to employ gossip as the mainspring of a student project.
In other words, they spy on a girl entering her boyfriend's
room at a party and, despite the fact that she was too
drunk to have sex, they start gossiping that an extremely
close encounter took place.
Tittle-tattle
soon turns into a giant snowball, especially when the
girl believes the gossip and decides to lay a charge against
her boyfriend. Now, in terms of ambition, Guggenheim fairly
packs his film with twists and turns: this is fine and
dandy when they emerge naturally from character and situation
but proves silly when they are disconnected from dramatic
reality and spring from a writer's head instead.
The
absurd ending is particularly guilty in this respect.
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