Spoiler Alert for "Empire Falls"
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Now, here’s the deal. In part seven (of eight total parts), something happens with no previous foreshadowing or warning. Ed Harris’s daughter has been spending time with a troubled teen in her high school art class. Lou Taylor Pucci plays the mangy, homeless, disturbed little boy. Randomly, Pucci walks into the art class, pulls out a gun, and shoots his classmates and his teacher. The audience is left thinking Ed Harris’s daughter has been shot because the scene ends with her crying and pleading, and Pucci aims the gun straight at her and pulls the trigger. However, you find out later that a man stepped in front of her and died instead.
It’s horrifically upsetting and plays no part in the story. Even after the shooting, the story pays very little attention to it. It’s merely to shock and upset the audience. Which it does.
Now, here’s the deal. In part seven (of eight total parts), something happens with no previous foreshadowing or warning. Ed Harris’s daughter has been spending time with a troubled teen in her high school art class. Lou Taylor Pucci plays the mangy, homeless, disturbed little boy. Randomly, Pucci walks into the art class, pulls out a gun, and shoots his classmates and his teacher. The audience is left thinking Ed Harris’s daughter has been shot because the scene ends with her crying and pleading, and Pucci aims the gun straight at her and pulls the trigger. However, you find out later that a man stepped in front of her and died instead.
It’s horrifically upsetting and plays no part in the story. Even after the shooting, the story pays very little attention to it. It’s merely to shock and upset the audience. Which it does.