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American Insanity

[almanac-39178 · 10/10 · 12 November 2023]

This film made me weep. Not because I've experienced gun crime or I've lost someone I love to it (I don't live in the US fortunately), but because it's so real and sad and horrifying. All the imagery and audio has been taken from material posted online or made available by the police, so there's an authenticity to it fiction can't match.

The film also brought home something I already knew, but maybe hadn't fully appreciated before. There is no rhyme and reason to life. There is no plan. There is no God. There is only insanity, stupidity, wrongdoing, and utter, utter, utter randomness.

If this film doesn't at least make you feel like weeping at the world, there's something wrong with you.

superficial

[donlouis · 3/10 · 10 July 2016]

A burning, exciting topic in a completely superficial documentary, based on genuine footage from TV, police archives and social media only. Viewers have no chance to go deep into any of the stories when someone was shot again in the US. All we can see is a bunch of claptrap footage from the once-happy-past (yes, babies are so innocent and cute) and the predictable present: another innocent person was gunned down. And another one. And another one. Perhaps filmmakers are tired to explain over and over again how crazy is weapon regulation in the US - but come on men, if you are tired of the topic, don't shoot a movie about it. This is tabloid: melodramatic but totally empty.