Maybe this is because I actually did research about school safety instead of hearing the news, but after ending this movie, I was really confused. My first thought, to be honest, was that the girl was killed by a teacher (more common than you think) or had hidden depression and killed herself in school.
It seems like I should assume a school shooting was the case because in one part of movie you can see American flag. Well, I guess we are going to ignore all those school shootings in Germany, Russia, and Canada and the whole school mass stabbing problem in China.
But leaving politics and moving to movies: animation is good, but that's where the pros end.
Characters are just stereotypes created in a way that should make the audience feel "emotional" and bad, so we have a perfect little daughter who loves her school and her parents who are perfect people and never did anything wrong to her. But again, realistic kids don't cause as many emotions as "little Miss Perfect," who goes to school she loves, right? Seriously, those "school-loving kids" exist only in fiction, and I don't see why we need to put this lazy trope in a movie about a serious topic, unless you want to make cash over people's emotions.
Music is standard, simple guitar music that even beginners can play, plus "emotional" singers with the most basic "I am sad" text. If you are making a movie about this serious topic, can't you at least make a song that doesn't sound like something that an edgy 12-year-old would use in their "Sad AMV"? It would help me to take it seriously.
It seems like I should assume a school shooting was the case because in one part of movie you can see American flag. Well, I guess we are going to ignore all those school shootings in Germany, Russia, and Canada and the whole school mass stabbing problem in China.
But leaving politics and moving to movies: animation is good, but that's where the pros end.
Characters are just stereotypes created in a way that should make the audience feel "emotional" and bad, so we have a perfect little daughter who loves her school and her parents who are perfect people and never did anything wrong to her. But again, realistic kids don't cause as many emotions as "little Miss Perfect," who goes to school she loves, right? Seriously, those "school-loving kids" exist only in fiction, and I don't see why we need to put this lazy trope in a movie about a serious topic, unless you want to make cash over people's emotions.
Music is standard, simple guitar music that even beginners can play, plus "emotional" singers with the most basic "I am sad" text. If you are making a movie about this serious topic, can't you at least make a song that doesn't sound like something that an edgy 12-year-old would use in their "Sad AMV"? It would help me to take it seriously.
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