I write for the paper
2:45 AM 5/13/10 · I just got finished watching Assassination of a High School President and find myself strangely impressed. The guilty party turned out to be exactly who I assumed it would be from the beginning but they whys and wherefores that led to that were not at all clear and a bit more in depth than I had any right to expect. That alone took me off guard and made it that much more enjoyable to me.
There's a lot of sex going on here but not a lot of nudity.
There's a very creepy priest.
The principle relates everything to his time in the military when he served in Iraq or Afghanistam...I don't recall if he specified.
The entire movie is narrated from the perspective of the main character.
I found the story to be just wonky enough that I almost would be willing to put this under the genre of 'mindfuck'.
Bobby Funke (pronounced Funky) is a bit of an outsider. He doesn't fit into any of the cliques on his campus. It's a school where there's a very loose uniform dresscode and a principle who rules with an iron fist. Bobby is a reporter for the school newspaper and he's not a great writer until he lands 2 very important assignments.
1 from the paper itself...
...and the other from the prettiest girl in school.
At the same time he's interviewing the student body president, which is a process unto itself, someone steals the big test. Bobby finds an interesting correlation in events and when he gets it in print everything changes. Everybody likes him, the prettiest girl in school has the hots for him, and he gets a writing scholarship. All is as he has always felt it should be...
...but as time passes more things about his story begin unravelling and he finds himself involved in a larger mystery that may well be a conspiracy.
Funke kinda reminds me, not just the way he carries himself and dresses, of Ben Urich.
If you know who that is.
Assassination of a High School President is definitely worth seeing.
There's a lot of sex going on here but not a lot of nudity.
There's a very creepy priest.
The principle relates everything to his time in the military when he served in Iraq or Afghanistam...I don't recall if he specified.
The entire movie is narrated from the perspective of the main character.
I found the story to be just wonky enough that I almost would be willing to put this under the genre of 'mindfuck'.
Bobby Funke (pronounced Funky) is a bit of an outsider. He doesn't fit into any of the cliques on his campus. It's a school where there's a very loose uniform dresscode and a principle who rules with an iron fist. Bobby is a reporter for the school newspaper and he's not a great writer until he lands 2 very important assignments.
1 from the paper itself...
...and the other from the prettiest girl in school.
At the same time he's interviewing the student body president, which is a process unto itself, someone steals the big test. Bobby finds an interesting correlation in events and when he gets it in print everything changes. Everybody likes him, the prettiest girl in school has the hots for him, and he gets a writing scholarship. All is as he has always felt it should be...
...but as time passes more things about his story begin unravelling and he finds himself involved in a larger mystery that may well be a conspiracy.
Funke kinda reminds me, not just the way he carries himself and dresses, of Ben Urich.
If you know who that is.
Assassination of a High School President is definitely worth seeing.