Charlie’s perspective is similar to Borgli’s as a Norwegian born filmmaker. There’s a distance in this film between the truth of gun violence and the story that’s being told, and that distance does the film a disservice. The nuance and discussion about gun violence has all the subtlety of a child lifting up rocks in the garden to gawk at the squirming bugs underneath. That is to say, Borgoli is using this twist just as a way to say, wow, isn’t this crazy?