12 Suicidal Teens

The 12 Suicidal Teens, numbered above

Short summary of the movie: 12 teenagers assemble at an abandoned hospital to commit suicide together, but once they all come together at their curated location, they find that someone has been “murdered”.

I'm not doing any sort of review that explains the whole premise and plot etc; I'm just voicing my opinions. For this, I might as well add that there might be spoilers.

I haven’t been moved by movies for the past year, but this movie brought me back to expressing my passion and opinions. I love this movie. It’s quite good and the cinematography of the film is out of this world. I absolutely adored how stunning it was, reminding me well of the South Korean ‘The Handmaiden’ film. Their acting wasn’t all too good, quite cheesy in fact, but I looked over it for the story. The film in itself had a great plot which tried its best to not leave any holes and any questions unanswered. The planning that must have gotten into this should be applauded as it couldn’t have been easy.

I loved each perspective and how the story unfolds. I didn’t want the film to end. Many would say that the film dragged out in the middle but I adored every minute. You, as the viewer, are calculating someone’s “murder” just as much as them, and that makes everything exciting. I was fully immersed and participated just as much in calculating and figuring out who did what. There were characters that seized my heart and those that did not, but had it not been for the exaggerated acting, I would have probably loved all of them.

I can’t pinpoint my favorite scene, but I can pinpoint my favorite event in the movie, and that was the entire mystery bit of it.

I will say that I really disliked the ending. It’s subjective to each person, and surely they expected this type of reaction, but it really disappointed me. I didn’t want it to be as predictable as it was. The ending felt like I was watching a dark, mysterious, immersive movie and then all of a sudden we switched to Barney the Dinosaur where we all love each other and hugged it out. I wasn’t even hoping that everyone should have died, but not even one life was taken away. Not even the “murdered” person. That for me was quite a joke, especially when they were all laughing happily as if the entire movie was not centered around everyone killing themselves for their own respected reasons.

Regardless of the ending, the film is still very good. It has its faults, but it was exceptional in delivery and still kept me watching until the very last minute.

It can't be seen very well (unfortunately due to my poor screenshotting skills) but this was the very last minute of the movie that made me say "Yes, I do love it, despite everything."