Movies about School Shootings

This is my favorite documentary -if not favorite movie- of all times. The best elaboration possible someone could ask both on the tragic Columbine massacre and the obsession of contemporary America with guns. Michael Moore harshly criticizes the corporate controlling of today and offers a thrill of emotions.

Gus Van Sant's absolute masterpiece. It makes you doubt, wonder and hate. The direction is unconventional and the picture so still, making "Elephant" a total must-see.This movie explodes so silently, like a firework in the night time sky.

This film is a diamond in the rough and I still don't get why most people hate it. It's tense and powerful and can't leave you without having an impact. The performances are high-powered, especially the one from Kett Turton. It's one of the greatest movies portraying a school shooting and the one that provides the most insight to the issue. The ending of the movie is silently explosive and at last, for once a movie that is not afraid to show the truth.

I love this movie and have it in my heart. It's a very tragic drama film about a family that is torn apart by the lack of a father and the difficulties they have to overcome in the process. It is also based on true events- the life of Dawn Anna- a mother of four and a high school teacher whose life changed after her 18-year-old daughter, Lauren Townsend, became one of the 12 random murder victims of the Columbine massacre in 1999.

It's a tremendous blow of honesty and pain, filled with the tragedy that only a few films successfully capture and deliver. Wonderful and stunning, a true heart-breaker.

Although this movie is about a school shooting, it studies the aftermath through the eyes of two seemingly different survivors of the shooting. It surely is not what one expects. It's more about the secret lives we lead and the hidden desires to be freed of our pain. I will not bother commenting on the performances or the direction -both are equally great. The soundtrack is something worth mentioning, the screenplay, too. It's a pure, clear, tragic, wonderful film. It investigates so many matters that you forget it all began with a school shooting.

The class is a film that deals with school violence, so all my defenses are off. It probably featured one of the most extreme series of physical abuse in school, and despite its high-strung motion, the ending leaves you rather emotionless. It's like the whole duration of the movie the bullying the two main characters faced was building up to a flat-line ending -which is rather sad. And the characters' personalities should have been investigated more thoroughly in order to make the viewer more sensitive to their suffering.

However, it is a movie that perfectly portrays what it was supposed to. It deals with matters such as friendship, love, conformity, pride, hatred, social roles, courage and how someone who is continually suppressed some day might react to it.

Generally, a great film from a country that has produced some fine cinema specimens, but a film that could use a couple of improvements, such as character depth -which is its major flaw. Highly recommended to whomever is interested in movies that deal with school violence.

The December 6, 1989 Montreal massacre is one I've studied the deepest close to the Columbine one. It was amazing to me how precise a portrayal there was. Wonderful acting, sublime soundtrack, but what matters the most to me when it comes to this movie is its direction - Denis Villeneuve does something not even the most experienced directors ever would: he takes risk, goes beyond what we see and think is right.

The one thing that didn't appeal to me was the emotional distance it puts between the viewer and the victims. The choice of black-and-white, the non-linear storytelling, the lack of mentioning anything about the killer's name and the parents of the victims is exactly aiming towards the creation of distance between the movie's subject and the audience. Which wasn't entirely right in a subject matter like this one.

And yet all the while, this is a near-masterpiece, and one that people should consider first when studying the nature of school/college violence.

I'm really angry at how much better this film could be. So much potential, so little of it used.

It's an amateur film and it screams so. Just a bad version of "Elephant"

I was so deeply disappointed in this film. When I first watched the trailer I was sure that the movie would be a heart-breaking masterpiece. The real love story of Columbine survivor Andrew Robinson and Columbine victim Rachel Joy Scott is truly one that could break your heart. But unlike real life, in the movie I didn't care at all for the characters. They weren't likable, I didn't feel their pain, it wasn't emotional and I spent most of the film thinking that the main female character was presented as a pretty silly girl with no depth and that the main male character was in serious need of a haircut.

This film is over-hyped, has a deceiving trailer and fails in delivery. And I'm sad to admit so because I had every intention of rating it highly. I've seen many movies based on Columbine and this one is a poor attempt to talk about compassion, hope and forgiveness. The only emotional moment for me was the end credits where there was a list of all the major US school shootings that occurred. Other than that, I was left indifferent.

When it comes to movies that include school violence, I am completely open-minded and accepting of almost everything without judgments. However, in this particular case, in the case of "Duck! The Carbine School Massacre" not only will I be judgmental but I will reach the lines of actual ranting.

I have a soaring appreciation for low budget/underground/parody films -more the ones that were only destined for TV production. But this one is so grotty it's hard to choose which aspect of it to judge firstly: the direction which is dreadful and nonexistent, the performances that are abominable, the script which was lacking depth, intelligence and reality?

Having studied the Columbine Massacre and knowing all details inside and out, I also found this movie highly inaccurate. If their plan was to ridicule and satirize the April 20, 1999 Massacre, so be it -but do it rightly. I have absolutely no doubt that a few of the students/parents/teachers/journalists/police officers were idiots with the full meaning of the word, but basing each single character on a stereotype is offensive and simply the job of a mindless moron.

When the movie begins, the producers have posted a note that reads, "Some of the people who will view this film will find it offensive and disgusting." I'm glad they knew it. It was their right to create a movie like this and I endorse their efforts, but (a) don't choose a high school massacre to make a parody of and (b) know your facts before releasing an extremely incorrect and erroneous film.

To my eyes, a true offense of a movie, utterly horrible and horrendous.