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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like River's Edge, it watches teenagers drift into horrifying violence with an unnervingly matter-of-fact gaze, emphasizing peer pressure, moral vacancy, and the oppressive banality surrounding the crime.
02
Why this pick
This is similarly bleak, intimate, and unsettling, centering on emotionally abandoned teenagers whose insular world develops its own damaged logic beyond adult intervention.
03
Why this pick
Its languid, observational pacing and detached view of alienated high-school life create a comparable dread: ordinary routines gradually reveal a chilling emotional disconnection.
04
Why this pick
For River's Edge's melancholy suburban emptiness and damaged youth, this offers another stylized but compassionate portrait of adolescents navigating trauma, estrangement, and dangerous attempts at connection.
05
Why this pick
Its episodic, confrontational meditation on everyday death and social numbness pushes the same nihilistic emotional terrain as River's Edge into far more experimental, abrasive territory.
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01 / THE STORY
A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Matt
Clarissa
Checker
Maggie
Jim
Tony's Father (as Mike Hungerford)
Feck
Tim
