Depiction doesn’t always indicate endorsement , but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily enlightening. “Wallflower” dramatizes the circumstances of a March 2006 mass shooting in Seattle that left seven dead, counting the gunman, who committed suicide.

The movie puts the massacre in its second scene, then flashes back to reveal what happened the night before, when the victims and the killer had attended a rave. At the rave, Link (Conner Marx) invites the man we know will be the killer (never named, he is credited only as “murderer” and played by David Call) to an after-party at a house. We’ve already seen that Call’s character will return the next morning and open fire.