User Reviews

I saw this randomly on HBO without knowing what it was about beforehand. I found it compelling.

Farelle Walker (the teacher) gave a very strong performance and the children were excellent too.

It evoked in me strong feelings of dread, helplessness, sadness, and anger.

I don't know if it was the director's goal or not, but I think the utter vulnerability and helplessness of the teacher and students as they wait for a police response makes a strong emotional appeal for better security measures at all schools. Armed security? Police officers? Teachers with concealed carry? Should be an interesting debate. For me, this short film has definitely helped me shape my opinion on these matters.

More than half of all mass shootings have been done by white people... as much as the previous review says why did they have to look like those two individuals, they had to look like someone.

It's extremely disturbing. The most intense and shocking 14 minutes you'll ever see. I'm writing this one month after Uvalde and it seems this short film predicted it almost to a tee. We need to do better for our kids. And to the single one star knucklehead reviews who's complaining about why the director made the two shooters look like the Columbine shooters: because all the school shooters look like that. Teenage white boys with guns. This is not a mystery.

I've been teaching 20 years and I saw some things that bothered me.

1. The teacher took the student outside the school building to talk to him 1-1. That would never happen. Where they went was too far from the classroom. Teacher's typically don't do that.

2. The door to the outside was OPEN! What?!?! Again, that doesn't happen. Especially in a school where there is an intruder alarm installed. The alarm went off and the teacher knew to immediately turn off her lights and close the shades. How does a school invest in an alarm system but not tell their teachers to close the outside doors?!

3. As teachers, we are told that our police department is 3 minutes to our school from first being dispatched. I understand that's close, however, I can't imagine that it took that long before the police sirens could be heard. By the end of the movie, still no sirens???

As a teacher that has had fearful moments during a lockdown, the fear that the teacher displayed was so realistic! The panic getting the kids out of the door and forgetting to count the kids while leaving the school seems quite realistic.

I freaked out watching the shooter blow the doorknob off the door of the outdoor classroom. It literally brought me to tears. I never pictured a gunman doing that to my classroom. This movie brought shooter drills to a new light for me. (I figured if I locked the door and put desks in front of the door, that would be helpful. Watching the gunman in this movie literally throw the chairs out of the door was scary and heartbreaking.)

I wish we would has heard the sirens at the end to know there was help on the way.

This movie, in 14 minutes, said more than any movie could in 2 hours. It was incredibly well acted and portrayed. The feeling of helplessness is perfectly portrayed.

I am not a gun nut, although I own and occasionally carry one, and the only thing going on thru my mind was how the teachers MIGHT have a chance if they were able to shoot back. I'm not saying they would but at least a maybe.

This movie is disturbing, thought provoking and can be triggering. I usually scoff at trigger warnings, but this movie definitely warrants one.

It's also easy to second guess what you would do in this situation, but that's the point. The teacher even says it: I've never practiced for this.

The ending is also exceptionally well done. There are no sirens and no help on the way. Just silnce and the unknown. Very powerful movie!!

I just don't know what to say. I was surprised on how life threatening the movie takes. The violence was taken to a whole new level. I'm not one to watch scary movies but this one got my attention. Basically, 21 students and an art teacher are stuck in a shooter drill, they decide to run to the first room that was shot. A kid didn't listen and got shot. This is basically a combination of sad, scary, action packed, and Al round just something to be confused about. I am not entirely sure if it's real or not but it prepares children and parents what to do in case of that emergency. Again, this is very confusing. But, overall, I really like the plot and idea it goes through.

Thought this short film has a dark premise it really does dive deeper into the mind of someone who might be going through this in the moment. A lot of people shrug off shootings as a "oh that's sad" and don't think about it again but this made me rethink about the things like this. It's frightening and it felt real. That's what was amazing about it. It didn't try to sugar coat the idea of a "shooting" but showed the mind of a teacher who had to experience this. The way the students acted felt real. Some weren't even crying because they were oblivious to the situation. Thank you for opening my eyes on this topic.

Why did they have to make the shooters resemble Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris!?