But the situation soon becomes dizzyingly disorienting - inside a toilet stall, Vada hears a shooting take place in the school. Upon arrival, she heads to the bathroom and sees Mia (Maddie Ziegler), who has found some success as an Instagram influencer. Vada (queer actor Jenna Ortega) rides to high school with her gay friend Nick (Will Rapp). More than 20 years later, a lot has changed about the way such shootings are typically portrayed in fiction and non-fiction, but as Mandy Park’s “The Fallout” suggests, the cycle of school shootings has never ended. The first few films about school shootings made in its wake focused on the killers, their possible motivations, and their violent actions.
Back in 1999, the Columbine shooting seemed to open the floodgates of an ugliness previously much better kept under wraps in American life.
