Kim A. Snyder follows 'Newtown' with another school-shooting doc, tracking activism sparked by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas tragedy. Read the review of 'Us Kids': Sundance
Moving quickly past the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school and the outcry that led many to hope things would be different this time, Kim A. Snyder'sfocuses on the still-churning months following the media frenzy: a period in which newly minted student activists tried to cope with national attention and, more importantly, channel energy into a tour of events designed to steer the 2018 midterms toward candidates who weren't in the NRA's back pocket.
Americans for whom all recent mass murders blend into one immense, sanity-defying horror may want to refresh their memories elsewhere.assumes familiarity with both the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre and the surprisingly strong response of students who survived it. Beyond a clip from the instantly famous speech in which Emma Gonzalez called Washington out for "BS," it replays little of what people will remember from media coverage of the students' response.
The doc all but ignores the role supportive adults played in making that day happen, and does the same with the next phase, a campaign in which students bussed cross-country, holding rallies wherever they found vulnerable politicians taking campaign dollars from the NRA.
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