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Keith Maitland reconstruye en este documental animado la matanza ocurrida en la Universidad de Texas en 1966, utilizando los testimonios de siete testigos y empleando para ello la rotoscopia, complementada hábilmente por material de archivo (fotografías, audios, videos...) e incluso por entrevistas en imagen real, logrando una experiencia cinematográfica única, que deja de lado los motivos del estudiante de Ingeniería Charles Whitman para asesinar a 14 personas y herir a otras 32 y que se centra en los recuerdos de algunos de esos supervivientes. Un documental que une investigación periodística, originalidad y que sirve de tributo a los héroes anónimos y a los caídos, en un año en el que se rememora el 50 aniversario del suceso. (Gijón International Film Festival)
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Tower is a brilliant evocation of the situation during the mass shooting on the fateful day in Austin when America lost its innocence, shown from various points of view of the victims and bystanders, who, in the words of one of the witnesses, were sorted into heroes and cowards. It is a chilling depiction of incomprehensibility and chaos that transcends the bounds of society and civilisation, to which every person responds differently yet identically in a certain overarching irrationality. In this respect, it makes sense that the film approaches the shooter as an anonymous and unseen entity. All the more catastrophic for the whole documentary then is the nonconceptual shift in the climax, in which there is suddenly talk of forgiveness and Charles Whitman’s actions are related to violence in the media and Columbine, though not a word is spoken about the man who pulled the trigger.
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Foto © 51. MFF Karlovy Vary 2016
