Bulletproof

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Bulletproof

2021

1h 23m

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Bulletproof explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, metal detector screenings, and school safety trade shows. Bulletproof asks what these rituals reflect back at us, looking beyond immediate causes and responses to mass shootings in a cinematic meditation on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States.

Teo Bugbee

New York Times

Oct 28, 2021

The accomplishment of the director Todd Chandler is that he continues to find settings that demonstrate [the] eerie divide between the desire for security, and the extreme measures being taken by schools to achieve impregnability.

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Todd Gilchrist

TheWrap

Oct 27, 2021

Offers an upsetting look at the way that handgun sales and culture exert so much control over policy and procedure. But without the willingness to connect the dots, Chandler misses his shot at indicting America's culture of violence.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

Nov 27, 2020

"Bulletproof" distinguishes itself from many other documentaries sharing its broad subject with its pointed focus on the cynical, profitable business of protection.

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Benjamin Franz

Film Threat

Jan 18, 2022

7/10

This documentary is worthy of your time.

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Forrest Cardamenis

Hyperallergic

Nov 8, 2021

Chandler's filmmaking betrays nothing.

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Christopher Llewellyn Reed

Hammer to Nail

Oct 29, 2021

Watching the final images of this powerful film, with kids just being themselves, reminds us the destination we all desire. Getting there, however, will prove difficult.

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Bulletproof explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, metal detector screenings, and school safety trade shows. Bulletproof asks what these rituals reflect back at us, looking beyond immediate causes and responses to mass shootings in a cinematic meditation on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States.

Director: Todd Chandler
Producer: Todd Chandler, Danielle Varga
Distributor: Grasshopper Film
Production Co: Walking Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 29, 2021, Limited
Runtime: 1h 23m

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