LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE

Mile Kunis stars as Ani Fanelli, a young woman living in New York City who seems to have everything: a great job with the potential for promotion, a loving and wealthy fiancee, and the best years of her life in front of her. Until documentarian, Aaron Wickersham (Dalmar Abuzeid), reaches out to Ani about his current project which seizes to revisit her tragic past, which is the subject of his next film. Ani is a survivor of a school shooting that took place at her private school in 1999 that is loosely based on Columbine. Her perfect world begins to shatter as she's forced to confront her past and attempts to lead her current glamorized lifestyle. The story takes place both within 1999 and present day (for this setting, 2015 before the next Presidential election and plenty of Hillary fodder is here for the libs). A lot of attention is givien to anti-Second Amendment rhetoric as another survivor of this event, Dean Barton (Alex Barone), is both peddling a memoir while also pressuring Congress to enact more stringent gun-control laws. Kunis is brilliant as Ani, a woman who seems to have her life under control but with the slightest amount of push about her past, becomes unraveled. The film turns out to be much different than what is expected from the trailer, especially within the final act. 6/10