The Fallout (2022)

Tomboy Vada and hot girl Mia are the only ones in the bathroom when a shooter opens fire in their high school. They hide in a stall together and are joined by Quinton -- stained with his brother's blood -- just a few minutes later. In the days to come, the girls seek solace in each other despite having no relationship prior to the tragedy.

Though the subject is important, I never felt as though we got beneath the surface to the real "fallout." The responses of the girls' families were especially odd: Mia's parents don't even bother to come home from a trip abroad while Vada's family's way of dealing with things seemed to be simply looking worried. Weeks after the shooting, her mother asks "who's Mia??" when Vada tells her where she's been. Has she never asked her daughter about her experience during the shooting? How can she possibly not know the name of the girl who was trembling alongside her during the scariest moments of their lives?

I don't know... maybe that's supposed to be the point. Perhaps the takeaway is supposed to be that school shootings are almost a rite of passage now? That we're supposed to take a bit of time but then everyone needs to just get back to normal?

C