Congrats - making a living off of writing is a hell of an achievement

I'm not trying to tell you how to write, or how to tell your story - below is just my opinion so take what you agree with, disgard the rest.

There's a lot of unfilmables in here

I learnt this

I have too many freelance jobs going at the moment to write anything for myself. Putting in 10 hours on most days. I suppose my biggest goal has always been to make a living from writing which I have achieved. However, I don't feel freelance has enough security. The work doesn't last forever. Even though I've been with this one Chinese company for a year now... the work's probably going to run out one day. I stopped working for the animation company recently because there are only so many scripts you can write for 3-5-year olds before your head explodes. I've got a nice corporate gig now too that involves me needing to know everything about a highly specialised business in 24-48 hours and then write a video script. It's

Matthew's point isn't about depicting a sympathetic view of the shooter. He's suggesting that you make the characters more real rather than cardboard cut-outs or heavily cliched characters. People do evil things, doesn't mean they do evil things all the time. Some serial killers have happy family lives. Make great neighbours. The only time one sees their bad side is if they're unfortunate enough to be a victim. Otherwise, they're great people.

In fact, some of the nicest people I've ever met have been murderers.

That's cool - world would be a dull place if we all just agreed all the time lol

I get your point, but I stand behind what I posted.

That said, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to read and review.

Mike

hmmm - feel like you are miss understanding me, and hanging on the superhero thing too much.

Just tell them you're going to sleep for a few days and put your suitcase in the bed. Maybe add a balloon with a smilie face on it. They'll never know.

Ok I read it

1) This movie is not about Jason, not in the slightest lol so who gives a rats ass about his motivations - makes my examples look stupid because both of those were main characters (will teach me to comment before reading the script). But...
2) you give us enough of his motives and mindset before the shooting anyway, through the interview with his mother - most importantly, you give us Stanley's perceived motives, which is important to this story (The fact he blames himself)

To be honest, I would go the opposite way and instead of giving us more about Jason, I would give us less - he gets too much attention in a story that is not about him - I would keep flashbacks, but instead, I would show them fro

I wish I could as it is supposed to be spectacular. Unfortunately, I'm on vacation in Florida when it is on. Do you think the family would notice if I skipped out for a few days? I'm sorely tempted lol.

I'm inclined to agree that not everything needs to be or should necessarily be explained.

Seen this one?

We Need To Talk About Kevin
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242460/
Based on the novel by Lionel Shriver.

Really heavy film...
The good news is that films like this do get made.

Nature/nurture, bad seed/ innate evil. Does the motive always matter?
The story is primarily about the fallout isn't it?