Actor Uma Thurman wants parents of every American teenager to watch her new film The Life Before Their Eyes to prevent school-shooting incidents.

Schools in the US have been on alert after the tragedy in 1999 at Columbine High School in which 12 students and one teacher were shot to death.

Thurman said parents should be more involved in their children’s lives to know what the kids are feeling so that clues can be picked up to avoid ugly incidents. In the film, she plays a mother dealing with a school massacre in which her best friend dies. She said the film will give parents a lot to think about.

“I feel really certain that probably, in a few hundred cases, a parent is going to watch this movie with their teenagers,” she said.

Promised discovery

“And in the conversation they have afterwards, they’re going to learn something about their kid that they never knew,” she explained. “The conversation is going to blow their mind about what kids have been holding onto, how they went through an abortion or how they had a tough boyfriend who treated them disrespectfully,” she said.

According to her, if it’s your son, it might be how they had a girl they dated and an abortion happened to them. “Who knows?” She asked. She also claimed that the movie deals with some real things that cause real feelings.
“At some time I’d like to show my kids the film,” she said.