“My Suicide”: Irresponsible Glorification
Tags: SXSW, My Suicide, Forces of Geek
How’s this for an ambitious film class project: videotaping your own suicide. Sure, it presents some logistical snafus, but how can you beat that ending? Or so thinks the “hero” of David Lee Miller’s My Suicide, Archie—a high school video editing and effects geek/virtuoso who has a small studio in his bedroom. The boy’s an outcast, finding a thrill and a certain poetry in his own death. He reveals his intentions to his teacher and peers, egging them on with an “I dare you to think I’m joking” attitude. All of a sudden, students are coming at Archie from both sides; some yell at him for expressing such thoughts and others congratulate him. Of note, at least to the boy, is Sierra, the school’s most popular, successful, and beautiful girl who, for some reason or another, wants to pick Archie’s self-destructive brain.
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Jonathan Pacheco dabbles in web development, veganism, and the occasional polyphasic sleep cycle. Learn more.
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