It's a horrendous sign of the times that the school shooting is already a well-traveled movie trope. Many films, among them Elephant, And Then I Go and We Need to Talk About Kevin, have explored the (male) killers' alienation from family and peers, and the lead-up to their attacks.
In its overstuffed way, Vox Lux concerned the flip side, a young woman who witnessed a classroom murder. With the astute and affecting The Fallout, writer-director Megan Park zeros in on a female student's struggle to find her footing after surviving a campus massacre.
Among films delving into this charged territory, Park's stands apart in its combination of low-key intimacy and, as the title suggests, its unwavering focus on the aftermath.
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