Zero Day (2003) was pretty praised by many critics. A movie that looks like it was shot by two teenagers, recording their own actions---their actions being the planning of a Columbine-like attack on their local high school.
While I think the movie is going for shocking, to me it bordered on arrogant, and self-satisfied. The POV camera movement was just irritating and cried out saying "look at me, I am an Indie film." The story, which could have had some relevant message seemed to wallow in the "there is no explanation realm" of these things just happen, it it felt to me like a complete and total cop-out.
The knee jerk reaction that there is no way to understand the motivation of anyone doing this act is to shirk any responsibility; from parents, from teachers and from our violent laden society. There are reasons people commit violence...it takes something deeper than this movie to find it maybe, but to say that there are no reasons we can understand---not condone at all, but understand---is also to say that we cannot change things.
While Zero Day tries to do something a bit original, it sells away that creativity by taking a stupid approach, a simplistic approach, to a complicated issue. I actually am sorry that I watched this movie.
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