There is a lot of films based on the tragic collumbine high school shootings, perhaps the most noted being Gus Van Sant's Elephant (which I shall be writing something on another time). However the 2003 film Zero Day is one of those films that really sticks with you. It's brutally real and gives you a lot of insight to how the minds of the teenagers planning and commiting this violent act work.
The most obvious thing that sets this film apart from hundreds of others is the style of the camera work, it is filmed to look like the infamous 'home movies' that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold filmed before they went through with their crime. When I heard about this film and the way it was filmed, I was wary, it can naturally go one of two ways. It could either be really badly done, being over-produced and 'Hollywood'd' and not at all acheiving what it is supposed to, or it could be really good and give the film a much more personal feel.
Director Ben Coccio really did an amaazing job in getting the actors (ameteur teenage actors) to act as if they really were the ones filming these videos to inform viewers of their impending attack.
I highly rate this film and think the way it puts across the raw and brutal reality is absolutely fantastic.
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