Kyle Rankin
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It's been 17 years since Gus Van Sant stunned and polarized audiences with Elephant , his transfixing, oddly lyrical response to the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, a national tragedy now almost normalized by the sickening frequency of mass shootings that have continued to stain American soil.
The topic has been treated with measured seriousness in some fiction films: Gus Van Sant’s Elephant , Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique and Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin .
2021 seems to be a calendar year for countless school shooting films ( Mass , The Fallout , Run Hide Fight )— Lakewood ’s approach through a parent’s perspective in real time is heartbreaking, horrifying, and upsetting all at once.