This movie is about a girl, who has a very depressing party memory which she doesn't share with anyone. I think the story needed a bit more polishing. The only good I found in this movie was the positive role modeling shown in this movie else there's nothing new in this movie and I think this movie best meant to be watched as a time killer.

You know, this movie was actually not that bad. It's not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but it's watchable. I'm not a fan of Kristen Steward, but she was well-suited for the role. I would even go as far as to say that it is her performance that "carries" the movie.I haven't read the book, so I'm just judging this as a stand-alone movie, and, as such, it's not half as bad I thought it was going to be. Maybe it's because my expectations weren't very high to begin with...I do, however, believe that the current IMDb rating of 7.8 is just ridiculous. This movie deserves a solid 6.0, but not over that, honestly.A good movie. Definitely worth watching, but a bit overrated if you ask me.

Spoilers as I try to write about some of the gory plot details. Words about rape, then words about guilt often not being a useful concept. Paradox, ignoring aspects alluded to by guilt as a recipe for a crime wave and would be called psycho? I tend to consider this feature alongside such as Mysterious Skin (2004) and Odd Girl Out (2005) and Our Guys: Outrage At Glen Ridge (1999) and Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995). Dollhouse is the greatest. Some find these to be difficult and painful to watch, but worthwhile even if they are only watched the once. I find them difficult to write reviews or comments on as I find it way too easy to mess myself up due to these being difficult to write honestly and clearly about. I find that what I write needs a lot of thought, especially about topics such as this, and my message board comments tend to be fast responses that are occasionally inept partial truths. I find Mysterious Skin to be not much of a problem as I do not find it personally threatening the way that I experience Odd Girl Out, which at 10th April 2012 I have not been able to watch fully. Too scary. That is supposed to be about USA schools, not the UK, and I do not remember my 1950's and 60's schooldays as such, but lowly work in higher education, yes, very much so. Mental health treatment by what the UK calls Social Services, ditto. My experience of health services is of me being wrecked and Odd Girl Out reminds me of a chunk of that. For me, Odd Girl – Alexa Vega – Melinda Sordino, who is easy to lead, is on the receiving end of genuine ritual Satanic abuse. Some in the UK might know something about what it feels like to be at the receiving end of of variations of that. There are local elections here, soon, and I remind myself that all political factions can get even worse, I definitely feel a need for a change, but …. Our Guys: Outrage At Glen Ridge and Welcome To The Dollhouse, I find these to be way relevant to my understanding of Speak, but I get tangled by the difficulties in showing how these show guilt to be an unhelpful concept. At least Dollhouse can speak for itself. I find the commentary track on my Speak DVD scary as the writer and director both seemed to consider guilt as real. The Bad Guy, and he is smelly bad, seemed to be understood to have free will, ditto the Tangled Girl who Hero met early on in the school bus, ditto Hero Girl. My experience is that guilt and crime and punishment in reality is a recipe for real world equivalents to fester and never be healed. Big babies getting the sort of nurturing that washes in the problem, deeper and deeper. So, if good people accepted that these did not have free will then I believe that the washing would get even worse. I have not got much faith in people. Speak is one of several KS features to show faith in artists, people with expertise in showing their personal experience of reality. For me, reality is the stage on which the puppet masters show their wares, superficial. Many show no guilt when dealing with the dispossessed. Psycho world. * Bad Guy met Hero when he was around age 17. He had a positive relationship with her for many, many minutes, then he took her aside and raped her. During the following year of school he occasionally gave Hero big trouble without even realising that he was being vicious. At the end of the year he was passé, forever unless he gets appropriate helps. Which is unlikely to happen. I assume that his age 17 experience is just a continuation of an escalation.Meantime, Hero learnt how to grow out of some of the chains in her psyche. Meantime, Tangled Girl continued to drift, eventually to become some form of passé unless she gets appropriate helps . Which is unlikely to happen. I like Donnie Darko, among the reasons is that it is clear about the helpfulness of the helps that Tangled and Bad will have received. Speak is good for showing the helps that Hero receives. Hero is chained too, yes, but has more appropriate degrees of freedom for being able to approach these realities in a rational way, Hero's rationality is not solidly chained against this. So, now there is Submarine (2010), a tale of a Welsh guy who is one of the Heathers of his school. Yasmin Paige as a Tangled Bad in a story that is not difficult or painful to watch. It looks to Welcome To The Dollhouse, but it is also close to some aspects of Speak. It blends well with Yasmin's role in True, True, Lie (2006). Also with Lymelife (2008), an Emma Roberts. Submarine suggests that how people deal with dogs can be a relevant factor. * An additional detail in the director and writer commentary is one of the new actresses in Speak being a contributor to IMDb. Megan Pillar as Ivy, Megan_ in the MB. I can only find traces of her in Message Board stuff relating to the release of Speak, so she might have quit or moved to a different user name.

SPEAK – CATCH IT ( B- ) The Concept of the movie is quite interesting and unusual. The whole movie proceeds very beautifully and does create the curiosity about "what exactly happened in past to Kristen Stewart's Character". The Flashbacks of the character were nicely incorporated in movie. Though, the second half the movie was little dry plus I wanted to see more of Kristen Stewart & Michael Angarano. Kirsten Stewart did a fantastic job as she does in her every Independent movie. Michael Angarano has few scenes but he Impress me a lot. Eric Lively is Gorgeous as her sister Blake Lively. Though, his role was creepy he did his best being Adorable. Speak showcases quite interesting look into a Teenagers life when some Unfortunate thing happens to them and they can't figure out how to share that with family & friends.