Short Comment on "School Tower Shooting"

Lola 2022-01-24 08:05:11

All clips are on Weibo. spoiler! 2016 American crime documentary animation. nice! There have been several school shootings in the modern history of the United States, especially in the past ten years. The characters in this animated documentary have smooth lines and rich expressions. They are a very true restoration of the firing at noon on the tower on the campus on the hot summer day of August 1, 1966. will). On that day, some people experienced the edge of life and death, some saw their own cowardice, some saw righteousness and offered help, some wit and bravely stretched out a hand of justice. How would you react if you were on the scene? Seeing others who need help within range, how would you act? Is it reluctant to choose self-protection? Or choose to rescue bravely? I think I will collect on-site information as much as possible (for example, the shooter’s specific location, range, rules, weapons, ammunition, etc.), understand the situation on the spot (for example, the injuries of the injured, etc.), and post the information to the radio And the police. When the information is sufficient, find a way to divide the attention of the scattered hands and concentrate on helping people who are still likely to survive. The shooter chose to live in the tower with the widest view, and the shooting accuracy is so accurate, which is enough to show that the shooter is well prepared, proficient in marksmanship, and cannot be underestimated. In the absence of any surveillance and criminal information, the police were obviously passive. Choosing to shoot unconditionally on campus can feel the anti-social mentality of the shooter, eager to take away their youth, dreams, happiness, and life from unarmed students. Seeing pregnant women still shooting and killing undoubtedly reflects the shooter's cold-blooded psychology and hateful revenge mentality. Shooting continuously for a period of time in the hot tower shows that his willpower is extraordinary, he has the consciousness of seeing death as his home, and the despair of giving up everything. Before the capture, the likelihood of suicide was high. The chance of success in negotiating with the gunner is small. "Time Magazine was listed as one of the top ten in 2016. In this film, the director cleverly stitched together old film and animation to truly restore the group portrait of the first random shooting incident that took place at the University of Texas in 1966 in the United States! Charles Whitman, the god of war, killed his wife and mother and boarded the high tower of the campus to kill 18 people and injured 31 people! Until he was subdued by a civilian who was familiar with the tower configuration and two police officers. Passed several people From the client’s perspective, the narration animation and data images are spliced ​​to restore the heart-wrenching case. In this way, the audience can more naturally understand and substitute for this shooting case that occurred 50 years ago. It focuses on a few people. The suspense shaping of the party’s key choices, the live interview video inserted later, and the narrative strategy of deliberately ignoring the murderer, show that the focus of the film is on the great choices and painful memories of a few ordinary people." Fragment (2) The beauty and viciousness of human nature, selflessness and selfishness, justice and cowardice are really unexpected. Until the moment of crisis, perhaps none of us will discover the nature and possibilities of ourselves and others. Fragment (3) When you alone have to face the fear of death and choose to fight the gunman; when you lie alone on the scorching ground and feel the child who is pregnant in August stop exercising; when you forget Feel the fear, when you blindly shoot to empty the chamber, and there is chaos in your mind; when everything ends quietly, when you start to play back the unreal scene of the experience like slow motion, similar to sleepwalking; when you reflect on whether you should first When you talk to the gunman and persuade the surrender to be invalid and start shooting again; when you can clearly feel the unreality of death and the blurring and disappearance of life; when you can’t even replay the revolving lights of life, you sink into endless forever In the dark. . . What is it, since when, and because of what, it began to deteriorate and twisted and deteriorated a lovely child?

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Tower quotes

  • John Fox: I remember looking at the Tower, of course, a lot. And from the Main Mall you can see there's a biblical line from the Bible. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." I've thought about it. One of the truths I learned... Is that there are monsters that walk among us. There are people out there that think unthinkable thoughts and then do unthinkable things.

  • Walter Cronkite: The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in the horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime.

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