Wasted

Wasted is a film about a bunch of friends that meet back in their hometown only 1 or 2 years after they left high school. The reason they come back home is that one of their close friends died. It is a great film, wrenching in its own way, about deep truths of life and people having the courage to speak the deepest truth to each other, though it hurts or though it may be denied. It is a film about relationships. It is a film about young people, and so it has some of the favorite elements of a youth film: a bit of a road trip, legends, urban legends, about the death of other young people and spooky woods, and so on. The characters are well portrayed, each with their own problems. Overall this is a great young adult type of film. One of the characters is self-destructive, gets into brawls, is addicted to drugs, and so on. The hard truth of the film is that some people get the chance to go to college, make something of their lives, and some people are left behind to be stuck in whatever problems the are stuck in. It is a film that makes you think about mortality, while also thinking about what it means to have joy in life.