We watched it last night, and as with any movie based on an actual event - I always look into what actually happened. And this portrayal does a huge disservice to it's viewers by the desire of the producer to drive a pre-conceived point, rather than tell the story.
The movie is about the young man who committed the worst mass shooting in Australian history, and among the worst in the entire world.
The movie sets you up to believe that it was his access to semi auto guns rather than his mental illness that was woefully maltreated, underdiagnosed and all out ignored by Australia's abysmal mental health care.
Caleb Jones was a deeply disturbed young man whose neighbors were terrified of. Throughout his young life he got himself into trouble with everyone around him, including a highly questionable auto accident that resulted in the death of the woman he lived with. What is missing in the film, is that it was reported to the police by people who knew him that he likely purposefully caused the wreck - as he had done in the past. The Australian police didn't even interview him, and wrote it off as an accident.
The fact is, Caleb's life is a long, long story of missed tragedies that were ignored and pushed away by Australian law enforcement.
The movie is about the young man who committed the worst mass shooting in Australian history, and among the worst in the entire world.
The movie sets you up to believe that it was his access to semi auto guns rather than his mental illness that was woefully maltreated, underdiagnosed and all out ignored by Australia's abysmal mental health care.
Caleb Jones was a deeply disturbed young man whose neighbors were terrified of. Throughout his young life he got himself into trouble with everyone around him, including a highly questionable auto accident that resulted in the death of the woman he lived with. What is missing in the film, is that it was reported to the police by people who knew him that he likely purposefully caused the wreck - as he had done in the past. The Australian police didn't even interview him, and wrote it off as an accident.
The fact is, Caleb's life is a long, long story of missed tragedies that were ignored and pushed away by Australian law enforcement.