Tower (2016)
Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Good movie but grossly overrated
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
This film will break your heart.It's all too common to acknowledge statistics and forget the human cost. This gets that across in such a powerful and artistic way. Never delving too far into the political, this film shows simply the tragedy and the heroism that arose on that day.There's not much to say here that hasn't been said before. My only advice is watch it. Regardless of your politics, regardless of your beliefs, watch it. If nothing else, this film is a beautiful memorial to those who were lost.
Great film beautifully conceived and executed. The animation was perfect. Only thing that stood out to me as strange was the police office saying that he thought the tower was filled with Black Panthers starting a revolution.The shooting from the tower was in August of 1966 and the Black Panther party for Self Defense was not formed until October 1966 - 2 months later. I am surprised the filmmaker did not catch this as it undermines some of the testimony because you realize that with time or testosterone people tend to embellish stories to make themselves look better perhaps than they were.Still loved it, but just questioning the full authenticity now not the craft.
As a current UT student, this movie means a lot. The tower used to just a landmark, but right now, it reminds me of the story of those brave men and women. It is the first time I saw a documentary mixed with animations. Those animations piece the story together, and their connection with the real video is very smooth. They also provide a shocking contradiction between the animated characters and the real people 50 years later. This contradiction reminds me how long we have been forgetting those people.
...other than I lived in Austin for 25 years.. but starting in the 90s. I've been on that mall on a hot August day, heard the locust, felt the heat coming off the pave, and recognized every bit of scenery. I've heard the story time and time again, and watching Tower I cried about 5 min in, and continued to do so until the credits rolled. The animation brought the bits and pieces of a splintered story into a very cohesive and powerful movie.