"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today. But you decided to spill my blood," says Seung-Hui Cho, in a video he mailed to NBC on the day he opened fire on fellow students on April 16, 2007, an event that became known as the Virginia Tech massacre.
"You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
Cho, filled with hatred and pain, spoke directly to the camera, haunting viewers with the words of a dead man who killed 32 people before taking his own life.
But in the short film, "The Choi Family"*, there is no rage or wrath-only the grief and chaos surrounding a family left to pick up the pieces of a world shattered by tragedy. Jason Stefaniak, an NYU film student whose girlfriend was at Virginia Tech at the time of the shooting, chose to focus on imagining Cho's family in the aftermath of the shooting. How would they cope not only with the loss of Cho but also his act of mass murder?
* "The Choi Family" is a fictionalized account of the family, whose last name is "Cho", and the events surrounding them after the Virginia Tech massacre.
Starring: EJ An, Alexis Rhee and Sammy Rhee
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30 окт 2015
