Lets get real.
Look nobody really has the right to kill. And they werent exacting justice, more like jealousy. Do you think the fact that they walked into school with guns like they were a couple of gods and shot people that they were some sort of heros?? your wrong, they werent victims and they werent misunderstood, they were assholes. Putting yourself on a pedestle and believing that you have to exterminate the scourge from the earth will only get you a one way ticket to hell.
excuse me?
Anyone who ever went to highschool can tell you "why" and for the people who are saying "Excellent portrayal of columbine", how the fuck do you know? you pompous fucktard......great animation, but deranged beyond repair....
Misguided
Technically, this film is adept. The concept behind it is where the trouble lies.
What happened at Columbine was tragic, there is no argument. And while I consider myself a leftist, I refuse to give sympathy to sociopaths. I had a shitty high school life too. I was picked on and had the shit kicked out of me and called every name in the book. But I didn't pick up a gun and hold target practice at lunch hour, and neither did the thousands, if not millions, who can sympathize.
So why do kids bring guns to school and take their revenge that way? Maybe because stuff like this, or Gus Van Sant's Elephant. While I thought the film was exceptional and this flash (at least in terms of construction, animation et al) was well done, both make the mistake of glamorizing/exemplifying Eric and Dylan as tragic martyrs of a society that had no room for them, and that's precisely the message to give if you want this to happen again.
I guess if I have to shrink my thoughts to a sentence or two, it would be this: life is hard for everyone, and most of the time it stays that way. But the truly strong are the ones who survive. Those who bring guns to school for their "revenge" are merely cowards, not heroes or martyrs, and there is no beauty in their plight. Just the ugly truth of what they are: murderers.
uhm..
the animation was well done, but it annoyed me that you said it was based off of the columbine massacre, when in reality, it looks like you just watched elephant one or two times and recreated it here. elephant is in no way shape or form related to anything that happened at columbine that day. yes, there were two shooters, but they got just about everything else wrong. personally, i hated that movie. maybe if this was a stand-alone animation, i'd enjoy it more, but knowing alot about the massacre, as well as eric and dylan, and having seen elephant, i have to say, no. just. no.
as good as this was
i was disappointed by it when i watched the movie elephant.except for like three parts this was entirely the same movie only in a drawn cartoon (Flash). I base style on originality, and so i gave it a zero because it was taken from the movie Elephant (HBO).