"Miracle Fish" Questions

"Miracle Fish", written, directed, and edited by Luke Doolan, and produced by Drew Bailey, was a short film that took place at a school with many young children. This boy gets dropped off at school on his birthday and is harassed by a couple of bullies. His parents gave him a small fish that is supposed to tell the kind of feelings that the holder has. When the child holds the fish, it reads that he is supposed to be compassionate. He becomes upset after the bullies mock him for being poor and he runs away and wishes to be alone. He tries to tell the nurse that he wants to go into the sick bay but he is unable to get her attention so he goes in there by himself and goes to sleep. When he wakes up, the school is empty and he is able to do whatever he feels like. He later encounters a shooter who has cleared out the school and tries to help him out by showing compassion toward him and his situation. He gives the man the miracle fish and it stays still, indicating that he is dead. A red dot of a sniper shows up on the shooters body and then dramatically takes him out. The overall mood changes from being sad to being happy for being alone to ending very dramatically. The dialogue in the movie sets the mood and gives some background to the story. The cinematography adds to a little bit of suspense in the short film. The best scene was the end where the shooter is dramatically killed and completely catches the viewers unaware. The film was pretty good, but once again it was not quite my style. It was very well created and does a good job in catching the viewers unaware and spooks them.