Obviously this movie is a bit too heavily inspired by Gus Van Saint's "Elephant". And yes: "Elephant" is a few classes better. The camera-work and the editing are good in "Klass" but this film contains a series of weaknesses. Maybe I should start with the minor ones: obviously there seems to be a stylistic insecurity which can be seen by the rather unsystematic use of colour effects. The music was uninspired and sounded like the work of an untalented bedroom producer. The sound effects were very American (very overproduced hitting sounds) which was heavily contrasting with the rather "TV style" dialogue sound. The script is in some moments very unauthentic and it seems obvious that it was written by a person far above teenage-age (some dialogues were very "unteenage"). Which brings us closer to the ultimate problem of this film: the content. In the intention to provoke and to get attention the author has used a topic with a predominantly American context ("High school mass murderer") and tried to transplant it into an Estonian context. This is highly unbelievable. And even within the context of the script not fully explainable. But yes: violence plus teenage plus mass murder works on the audience. And the author even pretends to show some authentic high school life in Estonia. How cynical!
