And I'm in high school.
This movie is garbarge and the farthest thing from reality.
Apparently it is.
While I have never personally experienced it...there is a book (which I'm assuming this movie is slightly based on) also called Odd Girl Out by Rachel Simmons. Check it out. She interviews real girls from real schools and women who were bullied when they were in school. It was rather interesting.
HAHA, not real? If you want to find out if it's real or not try heading to a small private school and pissing off the head bitch on campus somehow. Almost every single thing that happened in this movie was done to me. Or, an easier thing to do is just to Google bullying suicides. There's a lot! I remember reading about one strikingly beautiful and smart girl named Kristina Calco who hung herself after being harassed by people over AIM. People who act like you are the reason why it has taken so long to get bullying laws (especially cyberbullying) enforced in schools.
shareParents should be teaching their children how to fight and be tough! That whole "fighting dosen't solve anything"is *beep* When you teach these kids to be sissies; they won't know what to do when it comes be being bullied.
shareYeah, it's more like Middle School.
Well, for me it was. Middle school was bad, not as bad as what happend in this movie, but I can relate a lot to the main character.
Highschool (I'm a senior this year) is a blast. I'm really suprised at how great it's been, expecially since seeing so many movies that depicted Highschool the way they do. I was so scared about HS, until I got there.
I'm sure other places it's not so great. Guess it just depends on the people..
I think its somewhat realistic but I think the bullying was a bit too much, but I don't know if anyone would really put up with that the whole bullying, especiallly if I considered them my friends, I would've smacked one of those girls.
shareIt was a pretty realistic movie, but them bullying her outside of school and sending her all of those IMs...most people who bully others aren't going to waste their time outside of school sending hate messages and stuff like that. They'd rather be having fun.
But other than that, this movie was realistic.
It's only rock n' roll but I like it.
When I was in high school a friend of mine had people harassing her after school. They used to call her house at night & call her bitch.
shareI'm older than most of you, but I can tell you from what I've heard from nieces, nephews and their friends, bullying IS bad. While it is possible this was exaggerated for drama, it does happen. It happened to me, but unlike the character, I got to the point where enough was enough and socked the girl bullying me. I think for the child who is being bullied, martial arts classes at a good school are one possible solution, not because you learn how to physically defend yourself, but because they give you confidence.
I was also the victim of the 'fake secret admirer'---all this without the internet.
So it does happen.
>>most people who bully others aren't going to waste their time outside of school sending hate messages and stuff like that
umm thats a big fat triple NO NO NO! Bullies are MORE likely to attack outside of school because they can get away with it easier. And online? Talk about being able to get away free and easy!!! They'd rather be having fun? For an idiot bully that is their fun, attacking someone else and making them hurt is the icing on the cake of their day.
This movie is beyond realistic for some girls. Yes all girls are different and some make it out ok, but not all do. And don't you DARE give me that crap about how this isn't like high school or this doesn't happen today...I hear about this kind of thing almost EVERYDAY and I freaking work in a high school counseling office.
You want to believe its not happening...keep living in your fantasy world.
I wonder if the OP or Megizzle even watch the news. Did they not hear about the girls in Florida and the "copycat Florida" incident? The first one happened about a year ago where a bunch of girls videotaped a classmate being repeatedly beat up by them. They lured her into one of bullies home and beat her up. When she passed out (from having her face slammed into the wall) she woke up on the couch and they proceeded to beat her some more. Poor girl had to go the hospital for a concussion, and has hearing loss in her left ear and some loss of vision in her left eye (thankfully her hearing has come back, but her left eye is still blurry). These sick bullies were ages 14-18
What they are calling the Copycat video beating involved 12-14 year old girls who lured a 12 year old classmate into a parking lot. Of course, they video taped her getting beaten up by them... Thus, the "copycat". The girl suffered extensive head injuries and a chipped tooth.
Now if that's not severe bullying I don't know what is. It's disgusting that this happens. For all I know, it happens on a daily basis, but these two incidents were videotaped by deranged girls. Oh, and supposedly the reason the Florida incident occured was because the victim put "mean" things about them on myspace. I still don't know why the second girl was beaten up; all they say is that she's the daughter of a cop.
Actually it does happen a lot. It's where cyberbullying comes from. The internet seem to be a play ground for cowardly people who like to send harassing IMs, Facebook messages, etc.
"Don't they know they're making love to one already dead?!"
Love Les Miserables!!!
you have to be kidding me. i dont know what school you go to but this so happens all the time. its happened to me. personally. it was just as bad. i never took pills but i did do things im not proud of that now i have to live with for the rest of my life. so dont criticize something just because it doesnt happen to you. the world doesnt resolve around you. and its really annoying how everyone is sying this is ridiculous. if you think that then you gys were probably the stacys.
shareI agree! Just b/c it didn't personally happen to you doesn't mean that bullying like this doesn't exist. I've seen it.
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To those that think this type of behavior doesn't happen, Google the name Phoebe Prince...
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First off this is Middle School not High School, pay attention. They just hired High School ages actress the same way they keep hiring Collage aged Actors to play High Schoolers, it seems you can't your play own age till 30 for some stupid reason.
This Board is filled with countless posts from people describing how they went through the exact same thing, which to me jsut makes these complaining topics look silly.
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I wish, I wish, I wish!!!!!!!!!..........that this had happened at my school. I would be ready and willing to put those little chicken heads in their place. ooooohhhh, this movie makes me mad! If I ever saw this happening at my school, those girls would be snapped back into reality real quick. For some people, that stuff just doesn't fly. If only those girls knew now what I know, I'm sure they wouldn't just sit back and take that cr@p.
Oh how I wish I encountered girls like that.
Let me at 'em.
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Funny, because I'm in high school, and this movie seems to reflect my school (and my school district for that matter) very well. My sister was bullied for two years. My mother had to pull her out and homeschool her. She was so miserable at a school where a popular girl and her friend bullied her mercilessly for months that she would come home crying, and she wasn't an easy crier. After many meetings between my mom and the principal, he finally gave the girl a stern warning (because that NEVER fails) and a talk with her parents, who assured my mom that they would take this matter very seriously. The next day, she was then confronted by a girl who was twice her size and who also happened to be friends with the girl who bullied her. She then proceeded to humiliate her in front of several teachers and dozens of students in the hallway and then threaten her. She filed several bully reports, which the prinicpal absolutley SWORE by, to which she recieved no reply and the girl who threatened her was not punished in any way. My sister became so depressed that her grades started to fall and she gained a lot of weight. As far as I'm concerned, she's still not over it. That was just in middle school. Those girls are most likely going to be at my high school as freshmen, where my sister will also be going because my mom doesn't have a license to teach her in high school, and where there have been at least six shootings in the last year, God knows how many gang fights, and where a girl was beaten and raped.
If this movie, in your opinion, is nothing like reality, then let me give you a little dose. Bullies are exactly like they are portrayed in this movie. They are merciless and apparantly have no lives of their own because they go out of their way to make people's lives miserable. They get their friends to do it too, so its all them squaring off against one person.
Oh, and the movie took place in middle school.
So before you think you know everything about reality, why don't you try witnessing some or experiencing some. I'm glad that your school is so safe and friendly that you don't have bullies there (which you probabley do, and which you'd recognize if you'd open your eyes and take a look around) but that is not how all schools are. Think about it.
i totally agree. i laughed most of the time of how absurd this is. brutal, brutal, brutal. this kinds of things happen, but they put so much drama into it its absolutely unbelieveable. and the way she reacts is stupid on her part, because all u gotta do is not care what other people say about you. stupid, stupid movie.
shareheh, all the people saying this movie is unrealistic or she has to shrug it off are people that were "popular". Rest assured until I moved in 10th grade, kids WERE this cruel. I can assure you as someone who wasn't popular that I got teased and taunted on a regular basis. And to not caring what other people think, being told that you're stupid and worse on a daily basis WILL get to you. 100% realistic. Maybe not, but kids are this cruel and anyone who says otherwise has never gone through it.
shareThis happens. I know. I was on the receiving end in 11th grade and am still not sure 20 years later why.
sharemakes me wonder if the one who started this post originally was a bully
it seems that bullies are the ones who just dont get it
i was quiet to in high shcool
i was picked on singled out and targeted at first baptist academy in dallas tx
my jr high years was a living hell for me
i was popular in elementary school
but switched schools
that jr high school was the worst experience of my life
girls can be mean
this movie is very accurate
especially over a boy
i can separte bullies from victims
what apalls me is that adminstrators at schools dont do anything about bullies
and when nothing is done
school shootings happen
what they did was wrong yes
but they were pushed so very hard in that direction
again i am not condoning it
but when nothing is done about it
someone finally steps up and does something about it
i am not saying all shootings are based on this
but i am also not saying that none of them are either
again i was bullied in jr high and school
and they made my life a living hell
more needs to be done
because in my opinion its a hate crime
and also its not a phase
i hate it when parents think their kids are just in phases
well thats not an excuse to be hateful and hurtful to somoene else
we didnt ask to be bullied
we didnt ask for it at all
"--because all you gotta do is not care what other people say about you."
You've either got a really high level of self esteem, or you've never had people put you down or hurt you on a regular basis. If you're the latter, let me explain. When people put you down enough, especially on things that you're already insecure about, you start to believe it. You think, "well, if they're putting this much energy into making me feel bad, and they keep telling me, maybe it's true." It makes you question everything about yourself. It's easy to believe the worst in yourself. I mean, if someone tells you that you're smart, beautiful, special, or talented everyday of your life, and someone else tells you you're stupid, fat, ugly, useless, or unimportant every other day, which one is going to affect you the most? Which one are you most likely to believe?
Trust me, if not caring what other people think was so easy, everyone would have high feelings of themself all the time.
Dancequeen pretty much nailed it. All I can add to the "...all you gotta do is not care what other people say about you" is that even if you take that stance, that doesn't mean they're going to stop. You can ignore them all you want, but it leaves a lot of these kids in constant defense mode for the defaming comments made about them. Even if you turn a deaf ear to the comments, it doesn't mean other people aren't going to come up to you and question "Did you really screw three boys last Saturday night?". Or all of sudden being ostracized by your friends because they believe what the Bitch Clique is saying about you.
Unfortunately, we don't live in a magical society where a request to cease with harrassment is met with, "Ok, I'll stop".
I don't know, it depends on the circles you're in. Personally, I hung out with theatre and music kids; we had our own little dramas but never anything ridiculous. But there were those stereotypical "popular" girls who were downright cruel most of the time, not to mention completely irresponsible, thinking Daddy could bail them out at any time.
Also, don't forget this is movie, and the timeline is fast-forwarded to get to the highpoints.