proximoception

I think we're to understand that the community picked up that he'd aimed the crime at her, from his killing the rest of the family then lying down to be arrested essentially at her feet. The scene with the wheelchair kid also showed, convincingly because you felt worse for her, that she felt much worse when people were nice. All it was really taking from Columbine was absurd extremity - to say this shit is stronger than all other shit. No, people who do those things don't tend to say or think it's about their parent; a real Kevin is probably impossible. You can argue there's irresponsibility to taking those licenses. I'd suggest the various "art film art film" klaxons going off at the beginning minimize these dangers by boring off most of the uninformable.

She wasn't "unblissful," but an abuser. This was not subtle to parents, though I did wonder if some of it might be to nons, since they weren't going the usual glowering or cackling demon with belt and cigar route. "She didn't hold him" is not a cliche, it is extremely fucked up (watch a parent watching those scenes sometime). As was most of what ensued. She was clearly abused, and he was abused by her right there in front of us.

You know my position on abnormal psych: genes affect things in the sense that certain personality-infuencing configurations provide more protection than others to trauma flooding. This is crucial for treatment, trivial for diagnosing the problem, which is that flooding. Which comes from those who should have been giving care. And who sometimes thought they were.