Hello Herman Page #7

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
998 Views


their eyes on the screen as w...

What?

They're ready.

This is it.

We are just about to witness the ex...

I... cut it. I can't do it.

Herman Howards, you're

about to be executed

by means of the electric chair.

Do you have any last words?

- What's up, Herman?

See, when you're a kid,

you have to find that one thing

that you care about and stick to it,

'cause that's all you got.

What's your one thing?

I don't know.

I'll have to tell

you when I grow up.

Some people seem to think

that the question is,

"what the hell are we

gonna do with these kids?"

Well, they're wrong.

The real question is,

"what the hell are we gonna

do with us adults?"

So, today, take your eyes off

the computer screen, log out,

unplug, go outside, and exercise

your right to breathe.

You're still allowed

to do that, you know.

Take a momentary break from,

"buy this, sell that, feel this. "

But do it after the show,

because today,

we're gonna talk about what happens

when you devalue human life.

Okay, let's take some calls.

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John Buffalo Mailer (born April 16, 1978) is an American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist. more…

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