One of the more strange mainstream movies I’ve ever seen, a dark comedy really along the lines of a French farce but the subject matter, wow. I actually enjoyed it, but man what a time bomb. And it seems to have gotten such a hold on the pop culture psyche in some quarters. I blame this movie for popularizing the notion of attacking schools. This planted the seed.
The modern musical is if anything worse, it magnifies the peculiar aspects and glamorizes them even more, plus the formerly comical aspect of homosexuality has of course been spun 180 degrees and made into what PC demands in the modern era, it’s glorified just as much as trying to blow up a school.
The plot is very similar to a 1976 film called “Massacre at Central High”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_of_1984
Class of 1984 had some school violence
They blew up the school in Rock and Roll High School
And Targets (1969) had a sniper shooting at traffic and a drive in theater if i recall correctly