The We and the I 2012
Plot: A look at the lives of a group of
teenagers who ride the same bus route, and how their relationships
change and evolve on the last day of school.
Story:
A look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus
route, and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of
school.
loose as it is – follows Teresa (Teresa L Rivera),
who climbs aboard a bus taking a winding route through the Bronx to be
reinitiated into her pack after a mysterious three-month absence.
There's a semi-boyfriend to placate, his braggish mates to stand down.
She's lost her place on the backseat and it must be won back. Further
down the bus, micro-dramas play themselves out in rounds of bitching and
back-stabbing. The atmosphere is as stifling as you'd expect from an
extended journey with a group of rowdy teenagers.
Gondry, a
49-year-old Frenchman, makes a surprisingly successful go of following
the babble and switch of young, fast-talking Bronxites. Most of the cast
are non-professional actors recruited from a local after-school
programme. The inexperience shows, but their stories – Laidy (Lady Chen
Carrasco) struggles to organise a world-changing sweet-16 party, sleazy
Jonathan (Jonathan Ortiz) connects with a beautiful girl riding her bike
outside the bus – are well-developed, if simplistic. Gondry's argument –
that pack mentality crushes individual expression – follows a similarly
predictable route, but there's enough of his signature playfulness
(especially in the use of mobile-phone footage to present flashbacks) to
keep the journey entertaining.
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