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Deepfocuslens

Thanks! Yes that's right. Mass has been on my list.

Jackson Littlewood

I haven’t seen we need to talk about Kevin but one film I have seen that I have similar thoughts on is Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique. I thought there was a lot of overly artsy techniques there that didn’t serve the film well. It’s in black and white so I thought they were trying to focus on the expressions of the victims or something but there are a lot of really long establishing shots of a snow-covered town in Canada that I just didn’t see the point of. Also I thought it wasn’t particularly well acted. I did appreciate that the film was more about the victims as I don’t like the idea of sensationalizing the shooter. I also like the idea of focusing on the mother of the shooter since that’s a rare perspective.

Saku Työrinoja

A film called The Dirties.

Oscar Mitt

Perhaps Peter Bogdanovich's first feature, Targets (1968)? Boris Karloff's last film.

Emerson B

I watched Elephant after the Parkland shooting and it stuck a nerve with me. I don’t feel the need to revisit it since it is so raw and painfully violent.

Wolfman Brandon

This is not a good example because it's not on the same scale of horrible but it's the only one that comes to my mind that has a mother's perspective on her kid. One of the best things about Robert Redford's Ordinary People, which was mostly about Timothy Hutton, was Mary Tyler Moore and how she was trying to brush the whole family trauma under the rug in order to appear to people she knew as the perfectly functional housewife to the perfectly functional middle class family despite one son dying and the other surviving a suicide attempt shortly after. Even though she cares more about that than the well being of her husband and mentally traumatized son, she was just as much a victim in this as them and the fact that she couldn't overcome it at the end, unlike her son, was profoundly tragic.

Bennett Oliver

Mass is definitely one I would recommend. That was my favorite film of last year. I’ve also heard really good things about an Australian film called Nitram, which is based on the man who committed the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. Caleb Landry Jones plays the lead. That’s available to rent on Amazon.

Stephen

It looks like Mass is the movie to check out. I haven't seen it but I remember a few people in here praising it awhile back. The only other movie I can find that even tackles the subject from a parent's perspective is a movie called Beautiful Boy (2010) starring Michael Sheen and Maria Bello. In general, it seems well received.

Arthur Augustyn

Gus Van Sant's Elephant seems the most obviously related. I saw it in college and don't remember any clear opinion of it, but it was definitely Columbine inspired.

Tyler Shobe

The recent movie Mass I thought brought a very three dimensional perspective to both the parents of victims and perpetrators. It's essentially just a chamber play filmed but I found it very powerful and engrossing just for its subject matter.