Nitram (2021)
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he begins a slow descent into a nightmare that culminates in the most heinous of acts.
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But there have been previous works, including Paul Greengrass’s July 22, Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and the dozens of films that have captured the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide, that have had to contend with the same issues, and also faced similar backlash.
Although Kurzel’s recuperation lands after a long line of films reimagining mass shootings, from Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) to two recent attempts at the 2011 murders in Oslo and beyond, it’s a painfully familiar narrative striving to highlight an odyssey of dehumanization.