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1)What struck the most is the fact that contrary to what we can expect from a movie that trace the bloody story about the Colombine shooting, there's no much violence and action as we can experience in classical american movie.
2) What I really apreciate about this movie is probably the various very interesting cameras shots that allow us to put ourselves in the shoes of the differents characters.
3) What I found particulary upsetting is the murderers were actually high-school students that were the same age as the victims, which breaks the trust between them.
4) Basically the movie was supposed to recall the true story, however the producer Gus Van Sant decided instead to add a personally scenario changing the end as one of the killers shoot the other contrary to the real fact that both of them commited suicide.
5) In america, they can buy weapons so easily that two underage students can simply decide to buy an arsenal and make a kill in their own school.
Otherwise, we can make a sordid comparaison between Alex checking the cafetaria in order to prepare his attack plan as if he goes for shopping.
6) Alex and Eric are apparently two bullied children who are delivered to themselves as they lived most of the time whithout their parents. They developped a true fascination for the Nazis and they didn't know anything about love and relationship.
7) The film director make us quickly understand that the two killers were unsocial teenagers both locked in their own world leading by violence, hatred and video games.
8) The whole film is concentrated on the specific day of the massacre and the scenes are showed whith a very estethic point of view that gives us a ressentment as if something terrible was going to happen.
9) Gus Van Sant mannaged to create a whole ambiance whith a lot of very quiet and different characters opposed to the image of the classical noisy heoro that is always noticed.
Moreover, each of them has a decisive role as the first and the last victims.
10) Both of them, the killers and innocents are victims of the US gun cuture and the gun lobby.
The shooters just wanted to take revenge on the jocks that were the principal offenders of the bullying but these firsts even killed innocents such as the nerd girl who was living the same situation as them.
