A Girl Like Her
A Girl Like Her
PG-13 | 27 March 2015 (USA)
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Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. But when a shocking event changes both of their lives, a documentary film crew, a hidden digital camera, and the attention of a reeling community begin to reveal the powerful truth about A Girl Like Her.

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dynver

In this film, the storyline becomes clear throughout the movie and why the main character attempted to do something dramatic and fatal. In this day and age, bullying has gotten worse year after year. But after watching this film, you'll have a better understanding of the consequences of bullying. The actors were remarkable until the end of the movie. There was so much emotion and drama that made me want to watch it again.

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azuahmed

This movie showed how it really feels to be the victim and the bully. Hoping this would change how some people treat other people. Superb on how emotions were shown as they really suffered something like that. Most of us have... One of the movies that will never be forgotten. From beginning til the end it felt so real that as if I was there as well. 10/10 for everything.

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susanneforde

This is a heartbreaking movie about bullying and status in schools. It's about real and fake friends, and loving and broken families. It's also about lack of interest and lack of balls in the school-management. And suicide. About how damaging bullying can be, and how cruel humans can get. And its really not like any other teen movies about bullying. This one is raw, and real, and spot on. This is real life, just in a movie. I saw the title and the thumbnail for the movie at Netflix, and didn't read the summary or did any research before I watched this movie, so i actually thought it was a documentary until the very end. Can you believe watching this hole film thinking it was real? i cried so much i actually was shaking, but also shaking because i was so mad. I haven't felt an anger like this in a long time, and my heart broke several times.The fact that I could even believe that this was a real movie makes me so worried, just because this COULD really happen. This IS happening, all over the world! i think anybody should see this movie, and I think this movie is a real eyeopener for everyone. If this movie do not touch or move you in any way, you are dead inside, and that I'm sure of.

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Felix B

First of all I have to say that the performances of the young actors in this low budget production are pretty good, and they are absolutely capable of making you feel with them every step of the way.Secondly the POV shots are a good idea regarding the topic, letting the audience experience the real terror of a bully.Unfortunately that's about it for me when it comes to the positive things about this movie.To me shooting it as a fake documentary didn't give it enough emotional depth, as the flow of the story line, and especially the victim's story was interrupted too much. This way the educational (or awareness) part was pretty dominant, which is my real problem with this movie, because it clearly fails in this category.The movie portrays a stereotype of a bully that doesn't really reflect reality, but much more how bullying was received back in the day. Somenone from a troubled family, or with personal problems that copes with his or her frustration by bullying the victim. So kind of the classic "give me your lunch money", just on a higher level.Not only is bullying clearly in most all of the cases a social behavior, that has a lot of group dynamics involved, which means a terror on the level that leads to suicide attempts is very often the result of active bullying from several people or a larger group. But bullying is not necessarily connected to personal problems of the bully himself.I would even go as far as to say that the bully in the movie is not even a real bully, but would rather qualify as a psychopath, or someone with a personality disorder. She is almost obsessed with her victim, writing her hundreds of text massages online and via mobile, threatening to kill her, or suggesting her to kill herself multiple times, almost every day. That would be very unusual and alarming, and can never never be explained with some minor problems at home as in the movie, where the bully has a sudden crisis of conscience in the end, suggesting she is also just a troubled girl with the need for love.Also they obviously throw in online bullying, but fail to really address the problem. Text massages or mails can be avoided, you can get a new phone number or mail address. What we didn't see was online shaming and harassment, often in connection with social media, almost always, again, a group thing. Often sexual orientation of the victim is involved, often pictures and videos of victims are used.A whole movie from the perspective of the victim, no fake documentary, maybe with a lot of POV shots would have been better, showing how it comes to such a thing as a suicide attempt in more depth, in that case I wouldn't even have bothered so much with the educational part.

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