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The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they've made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in wading into such tragic horrors
The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they've made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in wading into such tragic horrors
The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they've made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in wading into such tragic horrors can come off as insincere, even exploitive.
The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they've made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in wading into such tragic horrors
In Mass, Fran Kranz's heartbreaking, poignant, rage-filled howl of a directorial debut, the American plague of school shootings is given four faces, four people, four parents. They sit in a room in a church, a quiet place for them to exchange pleasantries, hand over a little flower arrangement, and then tear themselves open in keening, wailing pain. Kranz's script finds these survivors in a place beyond simple anger, or hatred, or grief. For years, Gail (Martha Plimpton) and Jay (Jason Isaacs) have tried to find some focus for what happened to their son in an ordinary classroom. Today is an ...