I think it's easy to throw the term "coward" round as easily as the phrase "terrible writer" or whatever, from our chairs behind a laptop or desktop, millions of miles, years or wavelengths from the inside of a complex human mind.
Not sure if this guy's a coward. It takes a lot of balls to act upon your forbidden desires.
(Sure, it also takes a lot of balls to talk about them and seek help for what you're feeling.)
I'll give it a few years before there's a film made of it.
I don't think it took a lot of balls, but rather a lot of nerve. Maybe it's a fine distinction. But I think he was a guy consumed by hatred, an outcast from life's feast. He didn't apparently value his own life, and viewed his classmates with contempt. He was selfish and delusional, and knew he would eventually turn the gun on himself.
The guy with balls is the 76 year old Holocaust survivor, who had much to live for and appreciated the value of his and others' lives, by holding the door closed long enough while some students were able to escape.
But I agree about the movie in two to three years.
