Dark Night (2016)

Dark Night
DirectorTim Sutton

Plot

The film is told changing in between scenes of different characters in the duration of a whole day. A teenage boy named Aaron being interviewed with his mom, a shady man, some skaters; one of them with red hair, an army veteran, a therapy session group and a group of girls looking forward to go to the movies in the night.

During the film, various scenes happen that give hints that one of them is planning a mass shooting. Aaron has apparent anti-social behaviors, subtle delusions of being the center of attention and an avid liking of shooting-genre videogames. The army veteran is seeing attending a support group, cleaning various weapons and visiting a shooting range where he manages to headshot the targets.

From all the characters, the one who stands out are the shady man's hostile movements, as he makes recognition trips with Google Street View of a mall, counts the steps from the parking lot to the building and also is unstable and volatile. He looks for his ex-girlfriend who is on a guitar lesson with an automatic rifle but hesitates and it's incapable of doing her harm. Later, at one point he's seen trying different masks, one of them being a Batman mask.

At the end of the day in the evening, almost all the characters are together in a movie theater or in the immediate surroundings of it inside the mall. The shady man then arrives in tactical gear, with a maniacal smile and enters the mall through a service door.

The aftermath is shown in a single scene at the start of the movie with one of the girls sitting outside the mall, visibly traumatized, with some blood-stains in her outfit, alone and with flickering emergency lights illuminating her face.

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