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April Showers
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April Showers is a 2009 film loosely based on the Columbine massacre, written and directed by one of the survivors.After a school shooting leaves 14 people dead, survivor Sean Ryan is forced to come to terms with loss. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Rage Against the Reflection: Sean smashes a bathroom mirror after he has a flashback to being unable to tell April he loves her. He has a bandage on his hand for the rest of the movie. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Jason suffers one in a grocery shop, hallucinating a staring crowd holding copies of the magazine cover with the picture of him carrying the dead girl out of the school. | |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads | |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads: The news media are all over the place in the immediate aftermath of the school shooting (they show up at an area where the injured are being treated and loaded onto ambulances moments after some of the students who just escaped the school do). One reporter asks his cameraman "Did you get it?" with a smile, referring to a wounded student lying on the ground surrounded by friends. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: The film begins during the immediate aftermath of the shooting, when Sean learns of the shooter's identity. | |
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Daylight Horror | |
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Daylight Horror: The actual school shooting takes place during the daytime, naturally. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
| April Showers / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: Fourteen people (including the shooter) are killed during the school massacre, but only one of them is shot onscreen. | |
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Dedication | |
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Dedication: "In loving memory of those we lost" followed by a long list of people who died in school shootings (including perpetrators), and ending with "And those who survived." | |
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Evil Stole My Faith | |
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Evil Stole My Faith: Sean questions what kind of God would let something like this happen. | |
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| April Showers / int_53b84f6d | type |
Proscenium Reveal | |
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Proscenium Reveal: A scene where Sean says "I love you" to April is interrupted by him yelling "Cut!", revealing it to be a part of their stageplay. | |
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| April Showers / int_53c9fc92 | type |
Flashback | |
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Flashback: Several, especially concerning Sean and April's relationship. | |
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Blood Is Squicker in Water | |
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Blood Is Squicker in Water: Jason commits suicide in the bathtub. | |
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| April Showers / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Sean cannot seem to tell April he loves her. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Jason is unable to cope with his Survivor Guilt, and kills himself. | |
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Moment of Silence | |
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Moment of Silence: When Sean learns of April's death. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The film begins with Sean learning who committed the shooting, and then flashes back to show the events leading up to that point. | |
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Murder-Suicide | |
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Murder-Suicide: The school shooter kills thirteen others and then himself. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The film begins In Medias Res, and then goes on to show How We Got Here and the aftermath in roughly chronological order, with a large number of flashbacks throughout. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: One might expect there to be some kind of crisis counselling immediately following a school shooting, but there is not. It would definitely have been needed, as Jason displays very clear signs of PTSD. | |
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Meet Cute | |
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Meet Cute: April and Sean first meet during the theater group's initiation ceremony. | |
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Parting-Words Regret | |
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Parting-Words Regret: A variation. As he lies dying, Mr. Blackwell regrets forgetting to say "I love you." to his wife on the morning of the shooting. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: In a flashback, April tells Sean "It's not going to be the same without you", referring to his upcoming graduation. By this point, the audience knows that April is going to die whereas Sean will survive. | |
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Onscreen Chapter Titles | |
| April Showers / int_b96831b8 | comment |
Onscreen Chapter Titles: "Monday", "Tuesday", and so on. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: Some shots use this to look like security camera footage, evoking Columbine footage. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Jason bails on an interview when he realises that the TV network cares more about getting a good story than helping him find out who the dead girl he carried out of the school was. | |
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Thousand-Yard Stare | |
| April Showers / int_e11e88b6 | comment |
Thousand-Yard Stare: Jason has one of these on his face a lot of the time after the school shooting. | |
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| April Showers / int_e3cee2e7 | type |
Empathic Environment | |
| April Showers / int_e3cee2e7 | comment |
Empathic Environment: When Sean finds out April died in the school shooting, the next scene shows that it has started raining. | |
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story | |
| April Showers / int_e4b69188 | comment |
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Inspired by the Columbine school shooting, of which the writer-director was a survivor. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
| April Showers / int_f0c4ce7d | comment |
The Lost Lenore: April for Sean. Especially because he never told her he loved her. | |
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Survivor Guilt | |
| April Showers / int_feaf12e8 | comment |
Survivor Guilt: The survivors of the school shooting are hit by this, none worse than Jason. | |
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Strawman News Media | |
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Strawman News Media: TV executive Helen Mann is shown to manipulate Jason (who has just survived a school shooting and seems to be developing PTSD) in service of getting a good story of a "hero". | |
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