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A lot of reviews for “Disruption” are going to compare it to earlier movies about a stroppy teenager going berserk because he doesn’t get his way. This approach represents a facile reading of the film, which is in fact is about a great sadness, and which turns to chaos, that can afflict anyone, especially a vulnerable teenager who is going through a hard transition, he finally snaps and seemingly causes this trauma as a cry for help. That may sound like an Elephant retread, but the ingenious Disruption has little in common with Gus Van Sant’s intriguing but limited look at a similar incident (which focused exclusively on the day of the event). Disruption is far superior, more involving and emotionally powerful.

The main character Jim, not referred to his name in the film gives the audience clues as the film progresses that he is obsessively planning a massacre at his college (No references to Columbine in the film, incidentally.) Clues such as the initial looking at previous massacres in a dark room is odd however the easy access Jim has to the gun (frighteningly easy) portrays the kind of society we live in, where teenagers can get a gun without pulling a sweat. Who’s to blame, the media??Parents? Or teenagers themselves?

There are lighter moments in the film, where the theme of friendship of college students enjoying each other’s company and the positive representation of teenagers playing musical instruments or sports that we hardly see the media associate with the younger generation.

Film Directors Louis Paule and Sertan Vedat have made an intensely immediate, meticulously detailed bone chiller. You may question why Disruption was made (do we really learn an anything new about teenagers or their capacity for violence?), but as an experiment in terror, its right up there with the most disturbing movies ever made.