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Utøya July 22 review - recreation of Norway mass killing is a gut-wrenching ordeal
The horrific events that saw 69 teenagers die at the hands of a rightwing terrorist has been turned into a brutal single-take drama from the victims' perspective.
Erik Poppe's Utøya July 22 is a visceral, brutal, yet heartfelt and earnest movie, which imbibes the innocent bewilderment and horror of its young characters. On one unbroken camera take, it seeks to recreate the horrific mass murder of 69 defenceless teenagers in Norway in 2011 at a socialist youth summer camp at Utøya island outside Oslo. The heavily armed killer was a rightwing race-hate terrorist who had detonated a bomb in Oslo itself earlier in the day.
This slaughter was arguably the biggest trauma to have hit Norway since the second world war; the Utøya massacre (happening as it did in a closely regulated progressive European country) is also often adduced by America's NRA as evidence that gun control laws are beside the point. It was, however, a single incident: quite distinct from what is now the single rolling, continuous mass phenomenon of school shootings now in progress in the US.
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