Review of The Fallout (2021) by Jluis_001 — 05 Feb 2022

Stories about school shootings in the U.S. has almost become a genre in itself. Beyond the sad reality of what it represents, these stories sometimes also present an excellent opportunity to try to understand the trauma it embodies for the survivors.

The Fallout in my opinion does not represent something new under the perspective it presents, in fact if there was something that I disliked a lot is that in many moments it seems to have borrowed too much from Euphoria, the HBO series.

Not that it supposes to claim originality in a story like this, but I don't like being played so predictably either.

What I appreciate about its director's approach is that she avoids showing violence altogether. And the film doesn't shies away from it, but it really didn't need it.

The honesty of the emotional wounds is what this film it's all about and The Fallout gets it right by showing it in a way that feels genuine, regardless of each viewer's reading of it.

After all, each and every one of us deals with things in our own way.

The ending is quite sad and almost cruel, but not because it intends to be, but because at the same time it represents what is perhaps the worst characteristic that can be reached when it comes to a conclusion in a story like this.

The shootings will continue to happen, thousands upon thousands of lives will be shattered, but the rest of society will just shrug its shoulders and move on as long as the tragedy doesn't touch their own.