What We Know and Don’t Know About Mass Shootings and Gun Deaths
STRIP MALLS, MOVIE theaters, schools, grocery stores — the images in Speaking Is Difficult, the new film by Field of Vision
co-creator AJ Schnack, are ordinary but serene. Wherever we live, these
are the places where we routinely expose ourselves to the wider world.
The film punctures this calm familiarity with grainy audio documenting
past traumas. The details we can ascertain from these 911 recordings are
sparse — a white male shooter, an unknown number wounded — but we all
know how to fill in the blanks. In one sense, we’ve seen this movie
before.
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