Rating of
3.5/4
A cold and chilling drama
filmfan09 - wrote on 02/14/09
This is a cold and chilling drama inspired by the massacre at Columbine High School. You can't call it a docu-drama , because it doesn't document or or dramatize. Instead it looks with a scary eye at the tragic murders as they unfold. There is no attempt to analyze or explain the shootings. In a quiet moment in the film, you just see the two killers.
The actors are Alex Frost and Eric Deulen, just ordinary kids. You never find out why they become killers. The movie tracks a day at the high school as Josh Robinson plays a kid who's late to school because his dad was too drunk to drive.
I amire Gus Van saint for making a empty picture with a rejection of conventional narrative. What makes this film so effective is that it's just a regular day at a high school, much like at Columbine, and two kids just snap at that particular week. It could happen at alota different places and there's probaly nothing anybody could do to prevent it.
