Hello Herman Page #2

Synopsis: Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, famous journalist Lax Morales, sending him clips of the shootings captured with Herman's own digital camera. In the clips Herman tells Lax, "I want to tell my story on your show". Lax, haunted by his own past, is now face to face with Herman. The movie explores why and how a massacre like this can happen in our society, desensitizing in America, youth violence and bullying, the impact the media has on our individual quest for fame, and ultimately our need for connection.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Michelle Danner
Production: Freestyle Releasing
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
27
Rotten Tomatoes:
13%
Year:
2012
90 min
$5,985
Website
1,003 Views


white race is superior,

and all you can do is

waste your spit in his face?

Dumb kids.

That's what you are,

both of you... dumb kids.

- Uh, excuse me, Mr. Gall?

- What?

I- I've been waiting a long

time to meet you, and, um,

I didn't think I'd get a better

opportunity than right now.

Why do you want to

talk to me, Yankee?

Well, it's, uh...

It's, uh... it's your book.

I've been reading it.

I think you just might be a prophet.

If that's so.

So, what can I do for you, boy?

You could start by signing my book.

- What's your name, son?

- It's Vic, sir.

Vic.

My celebrity.

Lax.

- What's that on your shirt?

- It's a dodo bird.

Why are you wearing a

dodo bird on your shirt?

Because they look stupid,

but they're actually really smart.

Oh. That's cool.

Well, it sounds like

I got the seal of approval.

Should we begin?

Well, how much money do

I get for talking to you?

You don't get any money.

The money goes to the

families of the victims.

Besides, I thought you

wanted to tell your story.

Yeah, this is part of my story.

How much?

I don't know what the standard rate

for a story like yours would be.

That's 'cause there are

no standards for what I've done.

Come on.

Herman, you killed 42 people.

Somewhere in the world,

that happens every week.

What makes you so special?

I'm just a 16-year-old kid born

into a white, middle-class family.

I'm not some broke arab sucker

who grew up kicking pebbles

and thinks he's gonna become

a martyr when he grows up

and lay 99 virgins in heaven.

I mean, if that's heaven,

then Islam is even more

f***ed up than Christianity is.

- Are you religious?

- God is dead.

- Where'd you read that?

- Something I figured out.

You want to talk about your sister?

No, I don't.

Did you get picked on

at school, Herman?

What's that got to do

with God being dead?

It doesn't.

It has to do with you killing

these people, though.

Why... what did they

tell you at that school?

Did you?

Did you get picked on?

- Hello, Herman.

- How you doing, buddy?

Oh, you're playing games again.

Let's go play.

Let's go play.

No.

- No. Seriously.

- No, you're fine.

Let's play, uh...

Let's play a new game, okay?

All right?

You like that?

Come on. Come on.

You gonna cry?

Pansy.

Guys, guys, come on. Let's go.

- Come on.

- Come on.

You got to man up

one of these days, Herman.

Would you thought to do, what you did,

if they didn't do it in combine first?

- Yeah, but they did.

- But pretend they didn't.

Oh, come on.

They became real famous afterwards.

Everybody knows who they are now.

Do you think of them as heroes?

They said "f*** you"

to the a**holes.

After that, the freaks started

getting some respect.

But now that I've hit the scene,

I give them a weapon.

They'll be running the schools.

So you think you're part

of a revolution, is that it?

You'll see.

Kids all over the country are

gonna start doing what I did

until you a**holes finally

realize that we're here.

We matter, Lax.

What about the kids

you shot in cold blood?

Are they not part

of your revolution?

You sure don't speak like

the average 16-year-old.

Didn't I just explain this to you?

Do kids still, uh...

still play "The Hunt"?

Yeah, of course.

Well, what would you say

the point of that game is?

Well, you try to shoot everybody

and get lots of points.

What about "Post Shooter"?

Do you play that game?

Yeah, I own it.

- It's pretty hard to find, that game.

- Yeah, it is.

I've never played that one.

How do you play?

You go into the

post office one day

and you've had

enough of people's crap

and you shoot everybody

until they're all gone.

Sounds pretty easy.

There's a time limit.

And you get more points for

shooting people in the face

than you do the legs, stomach,

or the back of the head.

Wow. Do you, uh... do you shoot up

women and children, too?

I actually think you get

less points for them.

- That's nice.

- Yeah.

Does your mom, uh...

What does she think

- of you playing games like this?

- I don't think she knows about it.

Well, she bought

them for you, didn't she?

No, I downloaded it off the web.

Hmm, do you think that

playing games, uh,

like the ones you're playing...

They numb you to violence?

I don't understand the question.

Do they make it easier

for you to go in your school

and shoot your peers?

Uh, yeah, of course it did.

How do you think I became

such a good shot?

I remember, at one point,

this girl was running

right towards the door.

50 feet away.

- So, it was a game.

- It's all a game, Lax.

I mean, wasn't it a game when

you bashed that kid with a bat?

It's not my interview.

Why don't you stay focused.

Yeah, down in Georgia,

when you bashed that kid...

Did that seem real to you?

- That's not what happened.

- Oh, really?

Well, the three people that

were there said you did.

Where did you hear that?

Thekkk. Com, Georgia faction,

when you won that award.

They had a few things

to say about you, Lax.

What else do you think you

know about me, Herman?

Do you find it a habit to surf hate sites?

Is that what you do?

I have respect for anybody who is

willing to stand up for their beliefs.

And, besides, people's websites

are where you really learn stuff.

The web is the truth,

the way people really are.

You should know

that by now, Lax.

Lax Morales.

It sounds puerto rican.

It really does.

It's Mexican. I'm an eighth Mexican.

You want to kill me now, too?

No, I just...

I just think it's funny.

I think we're done for today.

What do you think?

I think he's being treated

like the damn guest of honor.

Hmm, someone should

do something about it.

Yeah, you can say that again.

Someone should do

something about it.

You know what I think?

I think you're a damn n*gger lover.

What?

I said... I think Vic Bishop

is a goddamn n*gger lover!

What do you say to that?

Come on!

Stop!

I said, stop!

What the hell is going on?

Vic was beating

the piss out of J.C.

- Why?

- He called Vic a n*gger lover.

Vic, in my office now.

Now, Vic.

Now, I seen the way

you beat on J.C. There.

I heard what he called you.

Don't you think that was

a little bit excessive?

I snapped.

It won't happen again.

Snapped. Bullshit.

When someone insult you,

you show them what happens.

I respect that.

I got big plans, Vic.

That day we always

dreaded has finally come.

Who would have ever thought there'd

be a n*gger in the white house?

We must all be crazy.

Do you know the minorities make up

53% of this country's population?

And they're driving

white people off land.

And most good white folks

don't even know the difference.

So what we gonna

do about that, Vic?

There's a storm coming.

We got chapters in seven counties

in each of these states.

And when Georgia strikes,

there will be identical

strikes in each one of these.

And these strikes will inspire

people to stand up and face

what's been coming since

Lincoln pissed on the constitution

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