I thought this was going to be an open account from the family of a mass murderer. Instead it was positioned as a mental health piece where she describes herself as a parent of a suicide child? Huh? Yes he committed suicide and he obviously had mental health issues but he intentionally and vindictively murdered and attempted to murder lots of people first. They have other parents discussing their kids actual suicides, again how is that relent to her? I do feel sorry for her to have had the loss of her son but she isn't looking at it rationally. I would have imagined she would have went on to help other parents of mass murders or spoke in schools about how school shootings are not the answer in addition to mental health awareness. Also low quality actors to show vignettes from the past just poorly done, actual images and videos would have sufficed. They kept showing Dylan in photos before he looked like the kid with long hair that shot up the school. Felt more they were trying to have you sympathize with Dylan rather than the actual victims.
American Tragedy
2019
Action / Documentary
American Tragedy
2019
Action / Documentary
Keywords: columbineschool shooter
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April 20, 1999 Columbine High School was under attack by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Sue Klebold, Dylan's mother, attempts to reconcile how the son she thought she knew, the son she loved could willingly be a school shooter. "If love could have stopped Columbine," she says, "Columbine would never have happened." What would real prevention look like? Is it possible? Is America ready?
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She's in denial
Misleading Documentary
This was a complete snoozefest. Very little information into what caused Klebold to do what he did. The mother deflects it all on Suicide. 80% of the show is about mental health. Important stuff but not what I was expecting. Sorry I wasted 5 bucks to watch this. Don't waste your money. I shut it off with 20 minutes left.
Fascinating
Susan Kliebold, the mother of one of the 1999 Columbine school shooters, courageously tells how she missed the mental anguish her son had before the shootings. His journal is read by a psychologist, and it shows how mentally off Dylan Kliebold was. No one caught it. The documentary shows mothers whose children committed suicide and how devastated they are and will be. There are 1 in 5 children killing themselves in the United States each year. Suicides are related to homicides. Dawson School was visited by Susan Kliebold where she observed the methods of teaching children to breathe deeply when feeling bad. The younger the child is shown how to express feelings the less likely they will suicide or commit homicides. The documentary should have had something from the other boy's mother, but Eric Harris' mother never showed up. Even a word from her would have been powerful. The main message is that loving your child is not enough, and that you must get to the bottom of negative behaviors instead of punishing them. Susan Kliebold remembers pushing Dylan against the refrigerator after he forgot Mother's Day. "I only wish I had sat down with him and shared the pain he was going through."