Review: Shoot (1976)

I saw this film many years ago on late night TV and have always been haunted by its final shootscenes.

A group of Hunters go on their usual weekend hunting trip and a bullet narrowly misses them. This begins a time of mass paranoia with the men inventing various reasons for the shot that has gone astray. They know that none of them fired it, but can not bring themselves to believe it was just an accidental shot from another group of hunters.

They decide to take action against the other group deciding they shot at them on purpose and the film escalates to its climax.

You could maybe argue that this is something of an anti-gun film (in a country like America so riddled with gun violence) but I would make the argument that it is exactly the opposite. Whilst it doesn’t make the consequences of guns very attractive, it doesn’t leave us the viewer feeling other than that they should escalate things even further.

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