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The heaviness of parallel montage records - [Business Card Introduction] A brief introduction to the theme of the film.
Jaylen 2022-11-30 04:01:04
This film is a youth cruel film in the form of a documentary, telling the process of a vicious shooting in an ordinary middle school in the United States and the events of the first few hours. Deception, comparison, exclusion, humiliation, ridicule, these youthful rebellious sins ended on a sunny afternoon under the guns of two teenagers who entered the campus in camouflage. The director uses a large number of long shots to record the behavior of each character on the campus, and the multi-perspective narrative with parallel division of time and space is also full of youthful sense of game in a casual manner. The bright colors and vivid tones keep the film from being tragic and brutal from beginning to end. The moment a normally gentle and honest boy enters the campus with a gun, he is like an adolescent elephant. When provoked, he will destroy everything. Although cruelty is deliberately downplayed, it is still a heavy topic.
Extended Reading
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Alex: [after Eric gets into the shower with him] Well this is it. We're gonna die today. I've never even kissed anyone before, have you?
[Alex and Eric start kissing each other]
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John McFarland: Excuse me sir, don't go in there!