Movie Review: PIVOT POINT

From the suburban community of Columbine not leaving out even the quaint Newtown neighborhood its devastating footprint’s no different. Even notable cosmopolitan European cities have witnessed it ripping apart their communities in the wake of its clandestine mission. Camouflaging its track as it criss-cross the Equatorial terrains it completes its expensive expedition back to the point of inception via the Pacific Rim like a ninja.

Characteristically, societies world over have been oblivious of its steady mutation through the ages. Small wonder then why the drug and cyber wars seems largely undefeatable. In fact, it is way beyond the gun-craze watershed.

Unfortunately, not even the “bumbledom MRI prognosis” scrutiny of an overstretched mental/ psychiatric healthcare sector would pinpoint the malignant tissue!
This mounting problem was well highlighted and perceptively dramatised in the movie “Pivot Point” recently.

Of course no one need wave a magic wand to prove that the prior improvisations [the guns, drugs, and sectioning] are merely secondary preventative measures. Instinctively however, Pivot Point explored the silently widening cracks in the stratum of relationship/family disconnect and gives a hint at the nerve centre of this ominous monster.
The movie chronicles the catastrophic effect of these cracks in the lives of a select college teenagers. Ill-equipped to cope with the incessant turmoil of abuse, depression, bullies and peer-pressures and other influences; all on their own in spite of the numerous but insensitive adults around them.

The resultant effect only manifests in what the whole community can’t ignore any longer but rue and decry as a result of missed opportunities.
As it played out in Pivot Point, if only people would spare the thought to pay a little more attention to the fledgling generation around them!