erin

living dead dolls

nirvana-coded andre kreigman and hole-coded cal gabriel ≽(◉˕ ◉ ≼マ

zero day (2003) is a horrifying film about militant obsessed best friends and self-proclaimed “tormented outcasts”, andre kreigman and cal gabriel, as they videotape their mundane everyday lives and mission “preparations”. that being their senior year plan to “fool everybody” and shoot up their school in order to “send a message to society” and get revenge for being “tormented”. basically a film about suburban hell and the type of secretly sinister landscape it is in the context of modern white america, and the strange phemoneon of the seemingly pinnacle of safe and perfect white-picket fence society being the breeding ground for rebellious violent nihilistic egoistical teen-angst ridden repressed faggotry assholes. it centers around the two boys increasingly toxic, twisted, and codependent dynamic, in which they mutually radicalize each other, collectively downward spiral, and ensure their mutual destruction.they decide to orchestrate their plan when the forecasted weather is zero degrees, but this day technically never comes, and they instead pick a set date of may 1st which is disturbingly close to the end of the school year and graduation.

the film is infamous and controversial because of its violent subject matter, debated (blatantly obvious in my opinion) homoerotic undertones, association with the worse online incel communities ever, and because of the fact that it takes inspiration from the columbine tragedy. from scenes of birthday parties, egging a jocks house, getting your braces taken off, explaining how to diy a pipe bomb from home depot, using childhood toys for shooting practice, starting a fight during spoken word poetry night, getting called a fag for wearing a jcpenney shirt, and ditching your prom party to hang with your homeboy, three main questions are at the forefront of the film. what drives the seemingly normal and average suburboid teen to such senseless acts of meaningless violence? can we blame the media, banned books, violent video games, and alternative rock for poisoning the minds of the youth? could a horror like this happen in my safe small and quaint suburban town? none of them are answered by the film.