New Film Explores Royal Oak Post Office Shooting

What's driving people to violence?

In the wake of recent shootings in the news, a new documentary film explores the possible psychological links to seemingly well-adjusted people acting out in sudden fits of violence.

"Murder By Proxy: How America Went Postal" - chronicles the 1991 Royal Oak Post Office shootings that left five people dead, including shooter Thomas McIlvane, a disgruntled postal worker who was allegedly harassed by his superiors.

The film is being screened for the first time at a handful of select theaters, including one locally. It will play Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at the Landmark Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak.

Producers say the "sobering documentary" delves into the "frustrated mindset of the American workforce in past years... "Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal" is the first documentary to look at the spree-killing phenomenon of years past through the lens of a socio-economic shift that began during the Reagan era."

The controversial film comes from the workers' point of view, exploring whether social environment, especially workplace conditions, are pushing people over the edge.

The film features interviews with survivors and victims of mass shootings, who openly blame workplace culture for many of these tragedies, and in some cases, amazingly admit sympathy for the killers. The movie also includes many interviews with US experts on mass homicide who discuss why workplace events like this occur, and how it could have been avoided.

The film is written/produced/directed by Emil Chiaberi and is co-produced by Oscar and Emmy-winning documentarian James Moll.

"This movie is an often-times graphic and eye-opening portrayal of the topic, and not your typical 'popcorn and soft drink' type of movie," says Chiaberi. "To be clear, it is not a gratuitous rehashing of those tragedies for shock value; it drives home that we are at the point in history where the subject matter in this film is highly relevant. There is great uncertainty about where this society is heading, coupled with widespread discontent over the same conditions that were identified in the film as major contributing factors to this tragic epidemic."

For more information on the movie, screening dates & times and more, go to:
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