Valkoinen raivo (2015)

Valkoinen raivo: Directed by Arto Halonen. With Lauri, Miro Mäkelä, Linus Tuomenvirta, Jouko Hokkanen. White rage is a story about Lauri and through him many other victims of school bullying and separate childhood trauma. Lauri is a victim of ‘white rage’, which can lead at it’s worst to school shootings.

“A great documentary about school bullying, its causes and consequences. The narrator tells his story from early childhood, through adolescence to adulthood. As he is telling us his story, we get news clips from school shootings, and from other terrorist acts. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe narrator is himself a researcher on this topic as well as having personal experience as a former victim of school bullying. He offers explanations of these horrific acts, both from an academic view and from his personal experiences. He is both close to, and has a distance to the subject. I think that this is a what makes the documentary so great. The personal story of the narrator is engaging and it makes me empathize with him rather than judge him, even though he is starting to walk down a very dark path. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe academic view makes connections between his story and other stories possible, which makes me understand that there may be some common factors behind these acts that in the first glance seem unexplainable. The theory offered, of black and white rage, is easy to grasp. The narrator voice is calm and easy to follow. I like that the story is not told to fast. It is a heavy subject, and the slow pace offers time to digest what has been told.”