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Why does it take over a hundred bullets to kill somebody?


There are several scenes where someone is shot multiple times, and they still get up and fight, or run, or whatever. Are the ones firing the guns extremely bad shots, or are they firing BB's? Then there's the teacher at the end. An entire clip is emptied into him, and he just gets back up like nothing happened. Is it some kind of parody?

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Yeah, for those reasons and others, to me the movie only works as a type of dark comedy parody. I'm sure many teachers often fantasize about killing a few of their most disruptive students, so here is one way that might work out. I cannot believe anyone would view this as a serious drama.

Sort of like Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" in the 1700s, ”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”

Kitana San

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Oh my god - that's ALL I could think when I watched it! That was some Scarface $h!t right there.....

"A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charlie Chaplin

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lol - Did you seriously not get that this movie is a satire?

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I thought that bit at the end with the teacher having a whole magazine fired into his body from an automatic, where he lays on the floor like he is dead, then when his phone rings he just casually gets up, goes to it, answers it, throws it on the floor and shoots it, eats a pear drop, then dies, was totally stupid.

Im convinced that this movie is not to be taken with even a pinch of seriousness, because that so would not happen. Granted that inless you are shot in the head, you do not die within 1-3 seconds like many movies make out that you do. But while you are lying there with multiple bullet wounds in you not dead yet, your body would go into shock, and when its in shock, you would not be able to casually do the things that teacher did.

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