Mean Creek - 7

Don't tell me you never once thought of doing something terrible to someone in an act of revenge. That bully in middle school, a rock in the forehead just to knock some sense into them. Make some of your pain theirs. That is what this film is about. A bully who is in need of a good swim in a cold creek. The situation, a plan which soon gets called off because bullies are not pure evil, turns out more horrible than anyone imagines and to harsh for justice. This moral tale brings up good questions about the tensions of choices that are out of your control merging and effecting those choices you have already made. Every coming moment is both part of human action as well as a combination of multiple actors and laws of physical space, and yet more than that. There are our own moral lives that are affected in this sequence of events. And as this film shows, tests our ability to be truth tellers, about the world and about ourselves.