Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This film is yet another great thanks to Ellen's amazing performance. Throughout the film, you see Tracey fall in love, attempt to rebel, deal with the bullies and completely break down. Exactly what every other teen goes through. But being that I'm the same age as Tracey in the film, I honestly couldn't have delivered the role better even if I were experiencing this first hand! She came off to me as a truly honest and genuine person.It took me until the end but I realized the symbolism of growing up (another great quality about this film, making it so unique.) After she lost her virginity to Slim Twig's character, her little brother disappeared. Her little brother symbolized her innocence or her childhood. And the fact that she made her top priority finding her little brother showed responsibility. Overall I believe that though fragmented screen put my eyes to work, it was appropriate for the scatter-brained, emotionally unstable girl. Both Ellen Page and Slim Twig did a fantastic job and the symbolism made it even better. This is a truly unique film and I'd say it's easily in my personal top 5!

This movie is like a film school editing project that got exposed to gamma rays and turned into a raging behemoth. It's hard not to be impressed by the tremendous level of skill and effort put forth here. I just wish it been for a more worthwhile purpose.Tracey Berkowitz (Ellen Page) is a 15 year old Canadian girl with a whole lot going on. So much so, the screen can barely contain it all and becomes a crazy quilt of individual image boxes, sometimes a dozen or more at a time. It's a visual bombardment clearly meant to overwhelm the viewer. For myself, I just got eye strain. That's because for all the multiplicity of sights and iteration of sounds, for all the non-liner digressions and monologues spoken directed into the camera, neither the story nor the dialog nor the performances here are anything to write home about. The Tracey Fragments has to be evaluated like a gourmet meal. No matter how marvelously prepared or splendidly presented, what ultimately matters is how it tastes and this film is rather bland and unsurprising.Caught up in a stream of Tracey's consciousness, we're flashed back and forth amongst her dysfunctional parents, torments at school, imagined hipster boyfriend, runaway life on the street, cross-dressing therapist, a guy named Lance from Toronto and the disappearance of Tracey's barking younger brother. Sometimes it's reality, sometimes it's fantasy and sometimes it's a mix of the two. But all of the cinematic prestidigitation in the world, and this movie includes almost all of it, can't disguise that there's really nothing all that interesting about Tracey or her life.Maybe there could have been, if this motion picture had stopped running in place long enough to catch its breath. If the barrage of imagery had been limited to, for example, giving us Tracey's impressions and reactions to the things that happen to her or presenting her own self-deluded view of the world next to how things really are, it might have been quite effective. Translating every little thing through a kaleidoscope, however, prevents any individual element of Tracey or her story from shining through. It's impossible to enjoy or be touched by anything about this tale except the exceedingly complicated way it's told. Emphasizing style so totally over substance is not something that connects with me.It's not fun to be negative about something so well made, but sitting through The Tracey Fragments is a chore. I can't call it a bad film because nothing about it has a chance to be either good or bad. Everything is simply overpowered by the ocular frenzy of director Bruce McDonald.

...this was artsy nonsense with a capital fartsy, no two ways about it. Presented in a scattergun multi-frame format, Bruce "Picture Claire" McDonald's "experimental" rendition of novice novelist Maureen Medved's faux "Catcher in the Rye" tale of teen angst and despair (with a screenplay by the selfsame author) utterly fails to engage, primarily due to its highly stylized presentation, and almost completely unlikeable protagonist, a loopy 15-year-old outcast with some serious problems (like losing a little brother who thinks he's a dog) and an attitude that made this viewer wish she would follow him wherever he probably went. Starring Ellen "Hard Candy" Page, who riffs incessantly on the darker edges of her "Juno" persona, "The Tracey Fragments" is far too much of a labor to watch to get anything meaningful out of it. No doubt Ms. Medved was tickled to write her own screen adaptation--more power to her--but if her source material is anything like this film, it must be damned near unreadable, and just as depressingly irritating. I give it five stars strictly for the obvious love and craftsmanship that went into it, and a pretty decent soundtrack. Ms. Page is a fine actress, and I hope she got a good paycheck, but this is not the sort of pretentious twaddle I want to see her doing. Grow up, young lady, and start acting your age. Of slim peripheral interest: "The Tracey Fragments" features at least two kevinbacons to George Romero. I'll leave it to Constant Reader to discover them.

Like Mike Figgis's Timecode which presenting the film four frames simultaneously on screen, sometime you just need to admire a person who did it; regardless what is said and done in the story. For their determination for inventing and experimenting something that count as a film, even you knew that you're not having a good time. The Tracey Fragments is the movie that will embraced by people who really into a film-making process, if not just for any regular moviegoers.In Christopher Nolan's Memento, the film plays with time. It was edited and rearranged backward as if an audience suffered from amnesia like the protagonist. The Tracey Fragments was also heavily edited to represent subconscious of adolescence mind. What's in Tracey's mind is fragmented; reality and fantasy are overlapping with each other simultaneously in each tiny frame presented on screen. It's maybe difficult to catch up from time to time, but it's worthwhile if you're getting the hang of it.And just like Memento, if you watch it in a perfect sequence narrative, it will be just another straightforward drama that has nothing much to add on. And to make it worse, The Tracey Fragments is suffered from serious lack of decent dialogs. What we've heard are only whining or bitching about society from hormone-inducing teenage girl. And it's even more embarrassing when secondary characters like parents or strangers open their mouth.But it maybe filmmaker's intention after all, maybe he want to show us how uncomplicated and simple adolescence are. They may speak what's in the heart without processing through the mind. Their tyrantness, lust, and stupidity that end up causing someone else's life, maybe this is the film that trying to show Tracey (By the way, great vehicle for Ellen Page, she's just perfect for the part) a step to embrace her own reality and feeling guilty for the thing she have done.The running time for this film is only 70 or so minute. It took only 14 days to shoot, but it took 9 months to edit. The Tracey Fragments may not teach you anything, nor give you a good time in return. But for that kind of dedication, you just gotta give it to them.