Film review: Justin Kurzel’s retelling of the 1996 mass killing in Port Arthur in Tasmania seeks to to explain the inexplicable in simple, human terms, writes JMaguireCritic
In April 1996, a psychologically disturbed 29-year-old Australian called Martin Bryant walked into a gun dealership and bought an unlicensed military grade semi-automatic machine gun.
Shortly afterwards, he used it to murder 35 people and grievously wound 23 others in a mass shooting in the Tasmanian tourist town of Port Arthur. Sentenced to life without parole, Bryant will die in prison.
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