The adventures of three deeply troubled teens who are on their way to commit suicide is Deadend.com.

Delivered as if the three had shot it themselves while making the road trip journey across Canada, the viewer gets to know each of the characters. At first you may think that the piece is not fiction and is in fact a documentary in much the same way as `The Blair Witch Project'

But you learn early on that it is a creation when you recognise that the camera is always getting the action and when you see all three characters in the shot and the angle changes or zooms in on one of them. So then you rest a bit easier because the hardships of the characters are not real.

But the characters are so realistic. This is managed in large part by the utterly believable language of the film. They curse.

They curse a whole lot sometimes it seems like they don't use any other words at all. It was difficult for me to sit through. But it was so true. That's exactly how those three children would have talked given their life experiences.

And the actors, well they didn't appear to be acting at all. I'm not kidding, watch this piece for the first few minutes and I'll bet you think they've made it. As I write this I have to keep prodding myself to remember that it was not a documentary.

Perhaps this happens because I cannot imagine anyone choosing to write on this subject. But clearly that is my own hang-up.

There are teens that have and do endure terrible hardships and a film like this forces people like me to take a long look at their pain and recognise that it will and does impact negatively on them.

I'm not sure that the film would appeal to audiences in Bermuda over the age of 20, something. There are just too many f's to stomach. In fact it's hard to think of it as entertainment. I had to watch it as I had to write this review, but I can't think of a single person I would recommend it to.

Well I take that back a bit; Al, Elmore, Ayo, Nick, Jay, Charles and Paul they might find it interesting from a filmmaking point of view.

The teens in the film have experienced very different traumas to the ones local Bermudian teens are probably acquainted with, so to suggest that parents watch this to get some understanding of what their children are going through would not be quite right. Although the traumas our teens suffer can result in the same or similar behaviour.

Deadend.com is the first feature for its director S Wyeth Clarkston and was screened at the Sundance Film Festival this year.

Cathy Stovell