NEW YORK (CNS) Understated and strikingly realistic, Mass (Bleeker Street), actor-turned-writer/director Fran Kranz s feature film debut, tackles a tough subject: the emotional impact of a school shooting on those left behind.
In an effort to understand the reasons for and effect of mass shootings, Fran Kranz wrote and directed the new movie “Mass,” which offers lessons for a divided world.
While set in a religious school, the movie does not place its principals within a religious context. But the choice of title implies that God is present with the protagonists anguish and willingness to forgive.
The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they've made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in wading into such tragic horrors can come off as insincere, even exploitive.