Neds (2010)

John McGill's trajectory is a chilling descent, chronicling a bright student's harrowing transformation into a knife-wielding delinquent, a "NED." Confronted by societal prejudice and diminished hopes, McGill navigates a treacherous path, evolving from a vulnerable target to a vengeful figure. He sheds his scholarly pursuits for reckless abandon, exchanging the altar for the intoxicating haze of addiction. His yearning for redemption clashes violently with his marred past, where conformity becomes a mirage and a brutal assertion of self looms as the only conceivable outcome. This is a stark portrait of a life irrevocably altered.