So many years into the great experiment of feminism and equal rights…this film takes a mass shooter event and, instead of making a docudrama, makes an art film. The experience of viewing it was quite strange at first, but grew on me. Importantly, it raised tons of questions about men and women and their roles in society, and the impacts we already see from equal rights.

"If I have a boy, I'll teach him to love." Love certainly needs to be taught and demonstrated to all children. Is the absence of mothers from their lives hampering that? The training of men to be passive had an impact in this tragedy, but that seemed to no longer be the case 12 years later in the skies over Pennsylvania; it just proves that each traumatic situation is its own, and prediction of behavior is impossible.

"If I have a girl, I'll tell her the world is hers." Does she hope for a daughter, as she believes her son would have no future. Has the tragedy of mental illness and violence caused her to lose her belief that a boy could ever become a good man? Or perhaps this statement indicates that she foresees a day when woman hold most of the jobs, and men must homemake or collect unemployment?

These are all questions which make this film an excellent choice for a film club or classroom where discussion could follow.