Everyone knows what these holidays are like. They're just wild abandon. The point is to go somewhere you're not known, drink enough to make you not care about anything, and sleep with as many fit people as you can find. Hopefully you may not remember some bits the next day.
It's been like that for decades and so many young men and women have experienced the debauchery of the annual booze up abroad. Beer is cheap, everyone is young and has little self control, and eager companies trying to grow their profits put bawdy games on to lure more people to spend.
For some their experience is simply being mounted by a willing male, as drunk as them. Neither of them get much from it, except perhaps bragging rights. And anything untoward can easily be regressed because the only memory of it is a fuzzy one in a drunken haze.
It's quite scary to watch it sober as we judge everything that's going on with an adult eye. But for the kids in the moment, drunk, away from home, with little self control or wisdom of the world, it can quickly get dangerous.
I'm not sure of the point of the film because this has been going on for decades and no-one really cares. People fall to their deaths from balconies, some are robbed violently and end up in hospital, others are raped. And yet life goes on and nothing changes.
All the kids gave fabulous almost documentary style performances. That's the first time I've seen McKenna Bruce and she absolutely shone as the wild daredevil at the start of the film, slowly drawing into herself and her melancholy toward the end. I suspect she's been on some wild holidays and used that experience to bring to this film.
There's no real pivot points in the film, no real Oh Heck! Moments, it's one of those that just lies smouldering in your mind for a while.
I enjoyed it in a melancholic, reality-TV sort of way.
It's been like that for decades and so many young men and women have experienced the debauchery of the annual booze up abroad. Beer is cheap, everyone is young and has little self control, and eager companies trying to grow their profits put bawdy games on to lure more people to spend.
For some their experience is simply being mounted by a willing male, as drunk as them. Neither of them get much from it, except perhaps bragging rights. And anything untoward can easily be regressed because the only memory of it is a fuzzy one in a drunken haze.
It's quite scary to watch it sober as we judge everything that's going on with an adult eye. But for the kids in the moment, drunk, away from home, with little self control or wisdom of the world, it can quickly get dangerous.
I'm not sure of the point of the film because this has been going on for decades and no-one really cares. People fall to their deaths from balconies, some are robbed violently and end up in hospital, others are raped. And yet life goes on and nothing changes.
All the kids gave fabulous almost documentary style performances. That's the first time I've seen McKenna Bruce and she absolutely shone as the wild daredevil at the start of the film, slowly drawing into herself and her melancholy toward the end. I suspect she's been on some wild holidays and used that experience to bring to this film.
There's no real pivot points in the film, no real Oh Heck! Moments, it's one of those that just lies smouldering in your mind for a while.
I enjoyed it in a melancholic, reality-TV sort of way.