I think you're missing a lot, like pretty much the entire movie.
Sierra had no intentions of "Catfishing" Jamey. It was the Popular Cheerleader Veronica who gave the guy Sierra's phone number as a cruel joke in the first place just because of who his friends were in that scene that he approached her in. Nobody expected Jamey and Sierra to make a connection like what happened once they started getting to know each other in the text messages.
The whole faking the disability thing was just something that was the only thing she could think of to save herself in that situation. I mean she was clearly trying to walk away but her friend Dan insisted that she come meet this guy face to face for the very first time. Absolutely nobody would know what to do in that moment so she did the one thing she could think of which was play deaf so that he wouldn't recognize that her voice was the same one that he'd recently started talking to on the phone thinking it was Veronica.
With that being said, It's not the best movie in the world but I thought the writers did a decent job at putting the whole story together. Developing the mean cheerleader from that image, to showing me (the viewer) a sense of why she acted the way she did. Not having her dad at home anymore, having a mean mom that took everything out on her kids just because of what happened with the father, and annoying little sisters that constantly verbally bullied her. All this girl had to count on was keeping up with the popular girl image at her school because it was the only place she could turn to to feel better about herself. That is until she got to know Sierra.
I really liked how the movie brought Veronica and Sierra together for the tutoring sessions so that they could both get something out of their situations. Eventually becoming really good friends. Without Sierra Veronica would have never had the confidence to confront her mom about how she felt which was great because it brought the two of them closer again, and Sierra would have never met that guy without Veronica as messed up as the whole thing was at the start. Their friendship is why Sierra kissed Jamey. Veronica promised she would not kiss him because she knew Sierra liked him, and was trying to help her by that point of the movie. Which is why she pushed him away when he kissed her. Not knowing that Sierra saw it. Everything after that was just an unfortunate situation.
Anyone would freak out if they were Sierra in that scene, seeing someone who she thought had become her friend over there being kissed, or kissing him so she thought. So she wanted revenge. She was a teenager that isn't perfect. None of the characters are perfect which is a good thing. It makes the story realistic.
Not sure what friend you're talking about that she didn't apologize to. She did apologize to the Dan, and while we didn't hear it, I'm sure Sierra and Veronica both apologized to each other for everything in that moment at the end that they embraced each other at the Prom.
I couldn't careless about hype but I for one give the movie a 6.5 out of 10. I wouldn't expect it to win any awards but I'd recommend anyone that likes this type of movie to check it out.
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