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(this is not a invite for those type of zero day fans to friend me or anything so dont even try)
it gets a bad rep cuz of the dumb tcc ppl who think cal and andre r charecters to aspire to be like or erase the entire point of the film
yes u can relate to them because they r teenage boys who mostly just act like teenage boys and thats the point. it could be anybody even the most averege teenager who ends up doing sumthing bad
the reasen it works so well is because the 2 boys andre keuck and cal robertson (who play andre kriegman and calvin gabriel) r just high school boys in theater irl, not big actors, so they know how to just act like themselfs. and because its like a found footege, they just have to act like teenage boys on camera. its easy and thats y its so good, its just the lives of 2 (mostly) reguler kids documenting there aventures and thougths to there cams
i think part of why elephant sucks in comparisen is cuz elephant isnt found footege of 2 kids being kids, evreything is staged and scripted like a reguler movie and its allso just kindof wierd. it just doesnt work for the seriosness of the situatian, they tryed to hard to make elephant more like art insted of reality
the messege of zero day isnt "look at these 2 poor boys who r so bullyed they have to do sumthing bad, lets feel bad for them :("
the messege of zero day is "white boys who have a god complex and get into nazi shit are on a slippery slope and u should not be like this". because yes mabey cal and andre r bullyed but not overly. they r bullyed probly the same amount the avrage high schooler is. i got called names in hs and didnt have many friends eather but u dont see me planning on killing ppl over it
and yes mabey cal and andre are gay for eachother but thats allso not the point of the movey. andre keuck in a interveiw said that if they decided to explore there feelings for eachother zero day probly wouldnt of happened because alot of that tension wouldof just been gone. they wouldof spend hours exploring eachothers bodys insted of shooting up the school. his words (paraphrased)
when u miss the entire point of a rlly good movie about social issues because ur focussed on the shipping aspect then thats on u dude
when u miss the entire point of a rlly good movie about social issues cuz ur busy relateing to the caracters in a unhealthy way then thats on u dude
for anyone who hasnt seen zero day and u have a neg oppinion of it because of the fandom, if ur able to handle the vilence at the end (u cant see much of anything cuz its cctv footege but the screaming and crying can be a bit much to handle if ur sensative to that stuff), i do recomend it. its genuinly a very good film. its suppose to be hard to watch, its suppose to make you think, its suppose to leave u feeling uncomfortble, ITS SUPPOSE TO MAKE YOU THINK. ITS SUPPOSE TO MAKE YOU THINK!!!
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sammy cathands
Very good little breakdown of it, dude. I think the concept of "shipping" as an idea has warped a lot of impressionable people's minds as a whole and rendered them entirely unable to actually engage with media in any genuine way.
The concept of fandom as a whole has lobotomized people, if you ask me, and the fact that fannish people become so disconnected from reality that they start treating actual incidents of violence and their perpetrators as play-characters they can fetishize and bond to is disgusting. But you already hear that from me all the time LOL.
ya but ur rigth
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If they want to disconnect from reality so much, they should start becoming obsessively devoted to weird hobbies offline like the rest of us mentally ill fucks. Collect marbles or something and give them names. Create a world of marble countries with intricate histories and diplomatic maneuvering.
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rule a coleny of ants
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