i have see at least four other film ( include michael moore documentary ) about the gun in america and and their easy availability three of these be about senseless shooting in school . and now we have another . unfortunately and this be the least interesting of the lot . gus van sant elephant top the board in it classic understatement and and weave disparate strand together in the end . with this movie and which dissect the aftermath of a school shoot start off with a tantalise premise what happen after . it be almost too horrible to bear and the mother ( a marvelous performance by marcia gay harden ) of a shooter in a school massacre and the traumatised police officer and the headmaster who be so intent on stop gun in school that he neglect ( oh cliché cliché . ) his own family and so on be all formulaic plot device at the best . the performance by the main actor be really good and but the poor material they have be give negates all . there be no sense of interconnectivity between the individual subplots and not really even at the end and when a totally gratuitous bit of violence brings just two of the sub plot protagonist accidentally together . the movie build up to nothing and and so end with a big so what .