A coincidence leads the film-maker into an exploration of the psychology and sociology of an act of bullying he committed back in elementary/middle school and the complicity of his classmates both during the event and afterwards.
More than anything else, this film seems an attempt to turn the lemony bitterness still lingering in his head into a kind of lemonade of redemption through confession and a profitable movie.
But the attempt is unconvincing, at least in terms of self-exoneration. At the end, when it is clear that everyone still alive who was involved got a chance to either vindicate or excuse their choices, but without the participation of the still living victim, it is glaringly obvious that this is coup-de-grace, a final act of bullying against a voiceless victim.
More than anything else, this film seems an attempt to turn the lemony bitterness still lingering in his head into a kind of lemonade of redemption through confession and a profitable movie.
But the attempt is unconvincing, at least in terms of self-exoneration. At the end, when it is clear that everyone still alive who was involved got a chance to either vindicate or excuse their choices, but without the participation of the still living victim, it is glaringly obvious that this is coup-de-grace, a final act of bullying against a voiceless victim.