The ending - spoilers!!

I thought the ending was very well made. It didnt show much, but then again, I really dont want to see some innocent kids getting shot with full gory detail. The 911 operator didnt actually see the boys commit suicide, and I think the 911 operators are trained to be calm no matter what the situation is.

This movie is, in my opinion, way better than Elephant, mainly because the actors were bad in it and I really didnt care for any of them. Pretty nice camerawork though.

I agree with the first reply. The ending was quite shocking, and stayed with me for sometime afterward. The calm talk of suicide and then the act itself was tough to watch. The whole movie was excellent imo, and different enough from Elephant that the two can not really be compared.

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I think that the ending was freaky. I liked that use of CCTV footage.

i thought it would just show them walking to the school then cut to like the evening news....but do they show the killings? and are they in black and white

I loved the movie and I thought the ending was a perfect way to end it. Why would you want to see that up close, and the whole movie is like shot through camera's, so how else could they have done it? The 911 thing was done well and it didn't annyo me because that's how 911 operators actually talk.
I thought the thing with the crosses shouldn't of been there though.

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I have to disagree with this. I thought Zero Day was by far one of the best movie I have ever seen. It's funny, it was all I could talk about for days, and my parents actully started to worry about me because I was so interested in it. The ending was chilling, how calm they where about death, but I do have to agree that the operator was a bit annoy, though she added to the effect of the whole sence.

Next, when I mentioned at school what Zero Day was about, almost everyone I knew was like 'well, that sounds like Elephant', and hearing this I thought for sure that I would love Elephant, so I went out to rent it and watched it with my friend. I would have to say that I was MAJORLY disappointed with it. We found that nearly the whole movie was just the actors walking around, there wasn't exactly much of a plot, and once you actully got into the movie, they ended it. They introduced to you people, then killed them off, as if showing you who their where was completely pointless, and even though once it actully got to the kids shooting up the school it was somewhat interesting, it was still quite a bore. Me and my friend ended up make fun of almost everyone, something we do in movies we're not injoying.

Also, what we noticed was that, it seemed that in Elephant they where trying to protray the fact that the kids where somewhat unaffected by killing people, mainly because of video games, which seemed to be the only thing that they really showed you in the movie (there was no reasons as to why these kids where doing this except a small scence where one is getting spit balls hurled at him), while in Zero Day it's majory based around the fact that there are no real reasons as to why someone would attack their school. I think I liked that message more then the one giving by the movie Elephant, mainly because I hate people who blame tragedy on something petty like music and video games.

It definatly makes you think, and think about what is beyond me. It's like they show you a shooting though the kids eyes, and in a sick way, you understand why their doing it, and yet you don't WANT to understand at the same time. What I also noticed is at the end, how Calvin is so different then he was during the rest of the movie. He just comes off as one who's quiet and shy, but at the end it's like he finds something in him that completely and utterly terifing. When he was yelling at the girl under the table to shut up, I was literally sobbing inside because it wasn't the same Cal that I had been introduced to during the first part of the movie.

Cal and Andre where just so real to me, I connected with them from the very first scene because their like almost any other teenager.

And i liked the fact that I got a few laughs out of the movie. Elephant was so serious all the time, it was like you always knew something bad was going to happen, while in Zero Day they give you this false sense of sercrity then hit you with the ending.

And i think I'm probably the only one here who actully thought the cross sence was a good ending. I'm not completely sure why I liked it, but I'm not sure if the movie would have been the same with just ending on their suicide.

Maybe if I would have seen Elephant FIRST, I would have liked it better, but in my opinion Zero Days was amazingly better made.

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I totally agree, with the original poster, about the kids running and the opeartor.

Zero Day and Elephant are very different, though. Personally, I thought Zero Day was much better.

The movie would've been perfect, except the school shooting scene just fell a little short. Such a shame.

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