when those people burned Andre and Cal's crosses?
For me they pissed me off
It didn`t really piss me off, they reacted how any sort of human being would react... I think Calvin and Andre would have expected defacement of their graves anyway
sharei was just disappointed in the scene. it didnt seem to fit or work as any sort of epilogue. the connotations of a burning cross also added some awkwardness to it.
shareIt's almost exactly what happened after the memorial crosses at Columbine were erected, and Harris and Klebold had their own crosses. A father of one of the victims, Tom Mauser, cut the crosses down.
As far as feelings about this act and the defacing of the crosses in real life, I'm a bit torn. On the one hand, I can understand how someone wouldn't want a memorial of the killers next to the memorial of the victims they killed. On the other, Greg Zanis, the guy who built the crosses after the Columbine massacre, sort of had a point when he stated the killers were victims too, in their own right. Victims of the events that caused them to decide to commit this crime, and victims in the sense that many warning signs existed, yet weren't followed up on, which could have prevented the shootings.
I understand why they did it, but i thought the movie would be more powerful if it ended right after they killed themselves. I was a little disappointed. this movie was great though, i can't stop thinking about it.
"All truth is parallel; all truth is untrue."
I had a mixture of feelings. I pretty much felt horrible for everyone. The victims, their parents,the shooters, their parents...and the fact that they burned the crosses just made me think about how they did this because of hate, out of hate, and now people are perpetuating and spreading more hate when they burned those crosses. So, everyone is to blame, not to blame, and everything is sad and horrible. Not everything it black and white guys. This is definitely gray area stuff.
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Due to a lack of interest, tomorrow has been canceled
I thought it made the villain protagonists more sympathetic, which I guess was the intention. The kids burning the crosses seemed like exactly the kind of idiots they were complaining about, and the 'there they are, burning in hell' comment was quite darkly amusing.
The burning cross connotations were disturbing also, it was an effective scene.
When Columbine happened, the killers were buried in unmarked graves. There'd have been no actual graves to vandalize.
shareI loved the last scene. It showed that despite their ideas of grandeur about changing the world for the better (with a shooting rampage of all things), all they ended up doing was stir up more hate.
Let's take out some puppets
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I wouldn't say "pissed off" It was a little uncomfortable given that we had been led to sympathize with Andre and Cal for the rest of the film, but it certainly wasn't something that they didn't deserve. I think it was also Ben Coccio's way of saying "hey look, just in case any of you watching this are thinking about doing something similar, this is the reward you can look forward to: everyone hates you and no one will know or care why you did it. Think about that for a second before you go through with it."
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