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‘Mass’: Read The Screenplay For Fran Kranz’s Stripped-Bare Story About Forgiveness And Healing
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Previously best known as an actor with credits including Dollhouse and Cabin in the Woods, Fran Kranz’s transition to screenwriter and director was sparked, after years of being intellectually aware of the horror of school shootings, by an unexpectedly visceral, emotional reaction to the news of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, FL. Kranz, then a newly minted father and formerly a target of bullies in high school, had to pull his car off the road after hearing the reports.
Mass is what emerged as he began to explore the feelings that moment dredged to the surface. “I wanted to tell a story about forgiveness, because I wasn’t really sure how capable of it I was in the most difficult circumstances,” Kranz said. “And when I was really honest with myself, reflecting on the ideas around forgiveness and reconciliation and how to heal after loss, I could see more and more how complicated it was, and how harder it was to define and grasp.”
His exhaustive research into mass shootings led him to zero in on intense but surprisingly peaceful, constructive and ultimately healing meetings between the parents of school shooters and the parents of their victims, with both sides working together to help resolve their respective traumas. “When I came across these meetings, I thought, ‘Well, this is at the very heart of defining forgiveness and figuring out when it’s available to you both to receive it and also to grant it,’ ” said Kranz.
Kranz structured his story around one such extended conversation between two sets of suffering parents (Anne Dowd and Reed Bailey; Martha Plimpton and Jason
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