Dir: Justin Kurzel. Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia. 15, 112 minutes
“We don’t understand it. And I guess we never will,” says the police officer on TV, somewhere in the background of Justin Kurzel’s dark-hearted new drama Nitram. The footage is real – a clipped news report that aired in the wake of the Dunblane massacre of 1996, in which a gunman shot dead 16 pupils and a teacher at a primary school outside Stirling, Scotland. Its horror was deemed unfathomable. Two new Firearm Acts were swiftly installed, outlawing the private ownership of most handguns within the UK.
