victoria Wilburn (victoria-wilburn) Bully Film Review Bully was a good film because it really showed how much bullying affects children everywhere. This movie showed different people all across America; they all dealt with being bullied. The director really wanted people to see and understand that bullying happens everywhere and some of the teachers just don't care or sometimes they don't believe the student when they tell them.In the beginning of the movie they started with a boy named Tyler, he had been bullied to the point where he took his own life. Then they started following Alex, they showed how he was being bullied everywhere at school. Alex never told his parents or even teachers at his school because he thought they wouldn't care or believe him. When Alex's parents would ask him how his day was he would give them a short answer and try to walk away. His mom usually had to force him to tell her that he was being bullied that day. Later they introduced Jameya a fourteen year old girl from Mississippi. She would be bullied everyday on the bus going home from school. One day she stood up and started threatening everyone on the bus. She was sent to jail and had to await trial.In Oklahoma they introduced Kelby, she was lesbian and everyone in her town turned on her. Of course her family stuck by her side the whole time and tried to help her deal with it. At one point a few people from her school decided they were going to run her over with a van. Even her teachers at school "made fun" of Kelby. At the end of the school year her family decided they were going to move so that Kelby could have a decent year in high school.Bully showed how the world can be good and bad. Most of the people in Bully overcame it and tried to make a difference and help fight bullying. Also with the parents that lost their children because they were being bullied.

Irishchatter To start this off, I honestly loved the opening song of 'Teenage Dirtbag' at the beginning of the documentary because it reminded how I felt when I was in school. When you're at a school and a teenager, it is so difficult to make friends that have the same interests as you or even hang out with. Of course,puberty gets in the way as well with guys and girls! I really felt sorry for Alex as his teachers didn't help out his problem or even refer him to a therapist like someone who would always be there for him. This is what is lacking in the states, they should employ more therapists in schools or colleges because the population is getting bigger and bigger each day. I think it would be great for the child to know that they can be able to stand up for themselves and decrease bullying!!

Syl How I totally related to the bullied victims in the film, this documentary is a powerful testament about the good that can come from film making. This documentary follows bullied teens and pre-teens who are bullied to death. There are plenty of ways to be victimized in the school system. I would have loved to have been an English teacher in a school and made every effort to curb bullying or prevent such behavior. Unfortunately, bullying doesn't end at high school graduation. It's worse now with the Internet. In my day, the bullies couldn't get me at home unless by phone. Still bullying has always been around. Finally, it is now getting attention. There are too many suicides from bullying. If I can send you one message, it does get better. I only wished that I fought back.

Tss5078 Today kids are killing themselves and each other at an alarming rate. The one thing all these cases seem to have in common is bullying. There was bullying when I was a kid, but 3 PM meant the end of the trouble. We had the rest of the day, the weekend, and the summer to recover. The advent of social media and cell phones has made the respite obsolete, as now, bullies can torture their victims 24/7. Bully is an award winning documentary that looks at the problems of bullying and shows the effects it has on children's lives. What I like about this film is that it showed a whole group of students from different economic, social, and ethnic backgrounds. What I took away is that anyone who is even slightly different in anyway, could be a target. What I didn't like was the solutions the film offers. Their solution is to tell someone and to stand up for kids you see being bullied, but anyone who has been bullied will tell you that those are not good ideas. Often times telling someone will anger the bully and make it worse, and as for standing up for other kids, often times that makes someone who wasn't previous bullied, a target. I think the answer is two-fold, in that first, parents need to tell their kids, from a very earlier age, that being unique, different, and even weird are admirable qualities in a person. I also believe the schools need to be tougher, because honestly, does anyone really think that giving a bully detention, telling them they're not nice, and that their hurting other kids really does anything? I think bullies need a taste of their own medicine, to feel those powerful emotions for even for just one day. You can talk until you're blue in the face, but you don't really know what something is like until you've experienced it for yourself.