This "art film" passes itself off as an insightful commentary on the disconnect in communication between teenagers and their parents, especially when it comes to drugs. Exactly WHAT it was actually saying is anybody's guess beyond an extraordinarily shallow and obfuscated portrait of caricatures that do nothing to inform through or criticize the topic at hand. Even calling them caricatures is extremely generous.

Absolutely nothing about this movie works and it's simultaneously infuriating and so hilarious it drove me to tears.

The opening narration is instantly contradicted when "paradise" begins with a drugdealer committing suicide.

The parents never pay attention to the kids even when the kids straight up admit to various crimes directly to their face and because of this, the plot could be resolved within the first 5 minutes of the movie if the kids merely recognized that their parents aren't going to get in their way, which is the inciting conflict in the movie. Logical inconsistencies and plotholes are littered AAALLLLLL over the place, and everything from the editing to the romance (because of course there's a romance) to the dialog is beyond awful.

On top of it all, the movie is DRIPPING in heavy-handed and nonsensically pretentious symbolism that doesn't have any rhyme or reason, from the "Chumscrubber" video game character whose relative purpose or name can hardly be said to incorporate into the story or message at all, to the fact that the closing shot of the movie is long zoom out to show that the entire town is shaped like a dolphin.

( O_O) WWWWWAT!?

What a ****in' load.