He is David ( Alan Boyce), an intense, dark-eyed musician whom everyone knows is gifted. The kids all hang out together, but one begins to attract our attention more than the others. They have seen these students and their school in a way that inescapably prepares us for something, without revealing what it is. Marisa Silver, who directed this film, and Frederick Elmes, who photographed it, have done something very subtle and strong here. The underlying mystery of many good movies is the way they absorb us in apparently unremarkable details, while bad movies can lose us even with car crashes and explosions. To describe the opening scenes makes them seem routine, and yet they captured my attention with an intensity that I still do not understand. We meet the crowd that these two kids hang out with, and we attend some auditions for a school production of “The Pirates of Penzance.” We are impressed by the fact that these teenagers are intelligent, thoughtful and articulate they come from a different planet than most movie teenagers. We meet the high school principal, a man who is enormously intriguing because he reveals so little, and yet still succeeds in revealing goodness. We meet a couple of kids who play in a rock band together, and try to sneak into a recording studio, and are thrown out, and arrive at school late. The following scenes unfold, it seems, almost without plan.
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