[Reellife] Tower of Power

[dave olsen]

You still have 3 screenings left to see a most impressive film on a topic that I 
rarely give any attention to: mass murder.

/Tower/ <http://thecinematheque.ca/tower> is a partly animated film that 
recreates the US's first school mass shooting in 1966 at the University of Texas 
at Austin.

What impressed me was the focus of the film: the feelings of the people involved 
who survived and the internal struggles they went through during that 
inconceivable 2 hours.

The killer is only shown at the end as a 3 year old and done so to show the 
direct connection between childhood experience and adulthood choices.  The 
victims are each recreated and given voice as the killing spree starts and 
continues so we can understand deeply what they went through.  And they also 
share how this experience shaped the rest of their lives.

The archival footage is overlapped and woven into the animation, which adds a 
special quality to this story-telling.  No wonder it won the Documentary Feature 
prize as well as the Audience Award at SXSW this year.

Of course, the heroic efforts of ordinary people are highlighted, but the people 
that couldn't help because of fear are also given voice.

/Tower/ <http://thecinematheque.ca/tower> is truly a remarkable film and it 
plays 3 more times at the Cinematheque <http://thecinematheque.ca/> in Downtown 
Vancouver:

Sunday, Nov 6 @ 4:30pm & 8:30pm and
Monday, Nov 7 @ 8:30pm
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Warmly,
dave/
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