Speaking is Difficult indeed. The film takes its title from a speech by Gabrielle Giffords, the congressional representative from Arizona, who was the victim of an assassination attempt in 2011. It's a film that wears its call-to-action on its sleeve, and provides a simple insight into many of the most high-profile mass shootings of the past five years.
This insight is in the form of a single 911 call from each shooting, playing over the locations of the shootings in their current state. One of the most horrifying aspects of this is hearing the 911 operators getting more used to how they react to the ever-increasing number of mass shootings. "We've got a school shooting" should never be a sentence that becomes common to say.
At a Q&A with director AJ Schnack at the Full Frame Documentary Festival, he told the audience how Speaking is Difficult will be updated with a new segment each time there is another one, but the film will always culminate with the Giffords shooting. 2011 seems to be ground zero for the rapid increase in mass shootings.
Schnack wondered if this is due to the fact that a sitting member of congress could be gunned down, along with 18 others (six of whom died in the attack)...and still nothing is done to bring common sense back into the conversation about guns in America.
You can watch Speaking is Difficult on the Field of Vision website starting today: https://theintercept.com/fieldofvision/speaking-is-difficult/
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