The Delicate Art of the Rifle (1996)
- Directed by
- Dante Harper
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A socially awkward college student named Jay becomes involved with a fellow student named Walt Whitman who plans a school shooting. The film shows the events from Jay's perspective in a surreal and non-factual way.
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What happens
The Delicate Art of the Rifle is a 1996 independent film directed by Dante W. Harper, with a screenplay by Stephen Grant, based on his short story by the same name. It is a surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay. Walt Whitman, the shooter, is loosely based on Charles Whitman, but the film is not in any way a factual account of the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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