1. About sniper guns:
The first thing to say is that the sniper gun in "Shooting Range" is not the antique 98k of World War II with an 8x scope as some film critics said, but the cz452 sports rifle produced by cz-usa company, with a caliber of .22 inches (5.56 mm), It is loaded with five rounds, but it is not a military rifle, but a cheap civilian rifle that can be bought in all physical gun stores and online gun stores in the United States. The price is about 250-450 US dollars, depending on different grades of accessories. Depends.
Some film critics say that the killing in the movie has no background, and the killer has no motive, so after figuring out the origin of this gun, can you understand the background and motive of the movie?
Yes, "Shooting Range" alludes to the indiscriminate shooting incidents that have intensified across the United States in the past two decades.
2. Inventory of some shooting cases in the United States in the past two decades:
In April 1999, two students shot and killed 12 classmates and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littletown, Colorado.
Around October 2002, mysterious gunmen sniping incidents continued to occur in Washington state, killing dozens of people.
In April 2007, a man in Blacksburg, Virginia, broke into Virginia Tech and State University, shot 32 people indiscriminately and then committed suicide.
In April 2009, a gunman in Binghamton, New York, shot and killed 13 people at a municipal center housing immigrants.
In 2012, a shooting at a movie theater near Denver, the capital of Colorado, killed 12 people.
In December 2012, a shooting at Sandy Hooks Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, killed 26 people, including 20 children.
On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
On October 1, 2017, a machine gun fire occurred at the Las Vegas Open Air Music Festival in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500. The gunman committed suicide. It was also the deadliest shooting in U.S. history.
On May 18, 2018, 10 people were killed in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas.
And just a few hours after I just finished watching "The Shooting Range", on October 27, 2018, there was a shooting at a Pittsburgh church in the United States, and 11 people have been killed...
What is the background and motive of the murderers of the above shooting cases?
3. Some details of the film
As a low-budget cult film with almost only one scene, Kitamura Ryuhei handled the fear brought by the social problem of frequent shootings in the United States very skillfully with technical elements such as shots, rhythm, and music. The unprovoked headshot is like a sudden fate, life and death, without warning, and nowhere to hide.
1. The identity of the gunman is not explained in the film, but judging from the age of the actor Aion Boyd, the character should be a retired sniper veteran, single, and participated in the 1992 Gulf War, perhaps because of the radiation from depleted uranium armor-piercing bombs. Sequelae (there is a close-up of the sniper's face in the film, and it can be seen that there is obvious blood in his mouth, which can be understood as the symptoms of spontaneous bleeding of the gums caused by radiation sickness), and then he hates and retaliates against the society with snipers. Judging from its indiscriminate sniping of people of all ages, its abnormal and anti-human personality is very obvious.
2. The four police officers who died in the line of duty belonged to the village police station level. The police car "SHERIFF" marked their identities. The police officers at this level are generally composed of local residents and lack professional training. The setting of being spiked in front of professional veterans is reasonable. .
3. The sniper is a repeat offender in the "ISA COUNTY" series of mysterious shootings. The markings on the handle of the gun show that the target killed more than 40 people. The police conversation also indicated that this is a serial unsolved case that has plagued the county for a long time. This is also a microcosm of the series of shootings in the United States.
4. The police car is prepared. It can be seen from the fact that the lights are turned off early and there are two rural snipers behind the car. However, because the intercom signal is weak, the inexperienced young police use mobile phones to talk. Then, the impatient old policeman seized the mobile phone (which fully shows the lack of professional quality of the film police) and asked the dispatcher to call the state police.
5. In the end, the setting of the woman in red being killed by the stuck fifth bullet highlights a desperation of no survivors, which is more shocking and more reasonable than the bright ending that the audience expects.
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