1, 2, 3, All Eyes on Me

This short film captured so much in such a short time, a loving teacher adored by her students and she adores them. She reacted excellently under an enormously difficult situation and she stayed by the kids no matter what. Her solution she thought of was genius and risky but overall when this type of thing happens you are fighting for your life! I was very impressed by all the actors. Felt so incredibly real I could not stop crying, just horrible that these things actually happen. Absolutely terrifying.

This film is terrible in all the best ways.

I have taught 7th-12th grade students for 21 years. When the lockdown alarm sounded in the film, I started tearing up. I don't get emotional usually, but this is real. We do lockdown drills in my district. I have 12-16 year olds casually ask me if I'd "take a bullet" for them after these drills. I get that they don't "get it," but this is such a deep and charged question.

My students are 💯 "my kids" but I also have my own young (family) kids. Would I take a bullet for any of my student-kids? At this exact moment, I can't say. I hope that I NEVER have to find out. I am beyond sad that this is a thing I even need to think about.

All this movie has done is given the sick people who want to do this ideas. They now will go back into rooms they already shot up and do even more. Thia is bad taste and any one who wanted to make a movie like this needs some metal help. It also profits on the tragedies and loss tthat the real failies of simular incedents feel and the memories and ptsd this woild bring back. I am a father of 2 and this movie bothers me. I cant belive any streaming like HBO would be so disresectful to place this on their streaming. I feel for the familes this garbage will affect, and hope this move will be removed from all stream chanels.

This had the potential to be a phenomenal movie. Unfortunately, it was only 15 minutes, long with no real ending. Like a fade to black type of thing. I would have rather it be a little longer to give it an ending. They could have done so much with the storyline. Although tragic it could have given a good lesson. The teacher, although terrified was smart and creative in the attempt to save the children in her class. Just as you start to get into the story looking forward to seeing her succeed it just ends. The story just drops off leaving you to wonder what happened. There was also storylines in the classroom that provided no explanation. It would have gotten a 10 If it was longer and had a better ending.

This short film is one if the most terrifying, jarring, as well as one of the most emotion inducing, that I've ever watched all packed into 15 minutes. The first time my children, who are now grown, came home from school and told me about the active shooter drill they had practiced earlier that day, I had to sit with that thought for quite a while. I cannot imagine how it must feel to lose a child to such a violent act of cowardice.

Future perpetrators of such violence aren't going to instantaneously acquire any novel ideas once they watch this.

This now not so new reality is difficult and heart wrenching. We need to generate conversations about this subject. Not talking about it certainly does not wish it out of existence.

The Violence Project is a research database and research center that has a lot of important information about mass shooters and shootings for anyone interested.